At a Bridgerton fan occasion in London final week – moderated by Queen Charlotte star Golda Rosheuvel – audiences had been handled to quite a lot of tantalising particulars in regards to the upcoming fourth season of the hit Netflix present.
Season 4 is ready to observe the second-eldest Bridgerton son Benedict (performed by Luke Thompson), and can introduce model new characters and places, while additionally holding up for nearer inspection the acquainted faces we’ve come to know and love from the sequence.
Who’s in Bridgerton season 4?
Showrunner Jess Brownell highlighted that on the finish of season three, Benedict feels that he’s lacking one thing in his life. His brothers, Anthony and Colin (performed by Depraved star Jonathan Bailey and Luke Newton, respectively) are actually each married, and can seem with their new households firstly of this season.
“[In this season] Colin is a spouse man”, joked Jess. “He and Penelope are each fairly joyful”.
Breakout star Nicola Coughlan can even reprise her position of Penelope Bridgerton alongside Simone Ashley as Kate Bridgerton. Plus, followers will get a glimpse at each couple’s infants!
However what of Benedict Bridgerton? Nicely, as followers of the Julia Quinn novels will know, this sequence introduces a model new love curiosity for the bachelor within the form of Sophie Baek, performed by Yerin Ha.
Talking about becoming a member of the massively standard sequence, Yerin informed followers that her audition landed late within the casting course of.
“My agent informed me I wanted to ship in a tape inside 24 hours”, she recounted. “A number of days later I acquired a callback, after which a pair days later I used to be on a Zoom with Luke – and the subsequent factor I do know I’m on a airplane to London”.
Sophie will arrive in tow with the family of Girl Araminta Gao, performed by Harry Potter star Katie Leung. She’s principally Cinderella – an Earl’s daughter who’s compelled to work for Araminta and her two daughters Rosamund and Posy, following the demise of her father.
“Rosamund and Araminta are a few of the greatest villains within the Bridgerton books”, Jess shared. “[In the show] they’re nonetheless villains… but it surely was actually necessary to us to humanise these characters and perceive why they’re making choices that we’d not agree with.”
What’s Bridgerton season 4 about?
However, in fact, the principle focus of season 4 can be Benedict’s love story with Sophie, who comes into his life inadvertently at Girl Violet Bridgerton’s masquerade ball, confirmed to happen all through episode one of many season.
“In each season we attempt to have a look at completely different tropes throughout the romantic style, and this 12 months it’s all about forbidden love… that class conflict [between Benedict and Sophie] offers us a really critical impediment and the stakes couldn’t be larger”, Jess affirmed.
Whereas Violet Bridgerton’s masquerade ball can be a ceremony of pomp and refinement (impressed by William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Evening’s Dream, based on Jess), we’ll additionally journey out of The Ton to the countryside and to Benedict’s cottage.
“Can I say cottage?” Jess informed adoring followers by way of livestream and in a press convention when speaking about particular scenes from season 4.
“And possibly inside putting distance of that cottage there’s a lake [and] it’s completely doable that Benedict may need to go for a swim”, referring to the well-known guide scene during which Sophie spies Benedict swimming bare.
Jess additionally highlighted that some adjustments can be made to the sequence from the guide, together with to Benedict’s character who she described as “extra delicate and considerate” in his interactions with Sophie.
Moreover, Bridgerton season 4 will see Golda Rosheuvel reprise her position of Queen Charlotte, whose relationship with confidante Girl Agatha Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) can be an enormous focus of this sequence.
The Queen should additional cope with the truth that Girl Whistledown has now been unmasked, and so she should discover a method to co-exist with Penelope Bridgerton whose nameless gossip papers fuelled a lot of the drama up to now three seasons.
Jess additionally confirmed that season 4 would dig into the lives of the servants of The Ton, offering an unprecedented perception into characters from previous seasons who’ve usually pale into the background – like Mrs. Wilson, the Bridgertons’ housekeeper, and Footman John.
Echoing these sentiments, Yerin confirmed that due to the “upstairs, downstairs affect this season, it’s gonna carry form of a recent vitality to the present”.
When is Bridgerton season 4 popping out?
Sadly, one factor that didn’t come up is Bridgerton season 4’s official launch date.
On condition that manufacturing remains to be ongoing, it’s seemingly the sequence will drop in 2026, presumably round Valentine’s Day. Nevertheless, there’s a glimmer of hope it might obtain one other Christmas-time transmission date this 12 months!
