Dear and kind reader, we know that you still have not recovered from the big announcement of this season, the engagement between Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington, but the gossip does not stop and Lady Whistledown needs more material to write about, so here we go: it seems than luke newton has confirmed that Benedict will be the protagonist of the fifth season of ‘The Bridgertons’.
He did so, vaguely, in an interview with the magazine L’Beauté Homme, when they asked him: “If you weren’t Colin, what other character would you be?“. This was his response:
I can’t really see myself in any other character. I love Benedict’s story, this season is very free and I think it’s a very nice place to be on set. He is a free spirit and something of a rebel. I can’t wait to see Benedict’s story next season.
The news does not come as a surprise either, after all the series altered the order of the novels when it decided to adapt ‘Seducing Mr. Bridgerton’, the fourth book in the saga written by Julia Quinn, skipping ‘I Give You My Heart’ ‘, the third, where the love story between Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Beckett, the unrecognized daughter of the Earl of Penwood, a purely Cinderella-style romance. According to Betsy Beers, executive producer of ‘The Bridgertons’, in the podcast ‘Inside the Ton: The Wallflower’, Benedict (Luke Thompson) is such a free spirit that we had to see him live more adventures before he settled down, plus , with Lady Whistledown’s secret revealed, it was necessary to further explore how Penelope is going to manage her double life.
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The second half of the third season of ‘The Bridgertons’ premieres on Netflix on June 13, with the great outcome of the romance between Colin, Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Eloise (Claudia Jessie) who will have to debate between loyalty to her brother and the secret of her former best friend. Besides, In this new batch of episodes we will finally see the long-awaited intimate scene between the two protagonists, about which Newton has explained:
I think nothing can prepare you for that first day of intimate scenes. The truth is, when you’re completely naked in front of your co-star, what I do is find a balance between making the team and myself feel comfortable. What helps me the most is to lean on the story and the script, and make it as truthful as possible to avoid making mistakes, so I stop thinking about how I look and focus on the scene.
