Think a Jane Austen mash-up with
Gossip Girl given the Shondaland treatment.
“My initial thoughts about the script was that it was really nice to see a story with lots of women and the writing was really atmospheric.
Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte in episode 2 of Netflix series Bridgerton
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“It’s a world that I love and to see that play out through female eyes, through female energy, was really something quite exciting and intriguing.”
While
Bridgerton is a fictional world, Queen Charlotte was a real person.
However, the Queen Charlotte Golda plays is a creation of showrunner Chris Van Dusen’s making, because she’s not actually in the best-selling books.