Jonathan Bailey is dishing on Bridgerton!
03.04.2022 - 19:39 / etcanada.com
Fans of “Bridgerton” have been eagerly anticipating the long-awaited second season, and now that’s finally arrived they some questions.
At the top of the list is why the new season has significantly fewer sex scenes that the previous season.
According to star Jonathan Bailey — whose character, Anthony Bridgerton, is the focus of the new season — the reason has to do with the story arc of his character’s search for a bride, courting Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) while also wooing her sister Edwina (Charithra Chandran) at the same time.
“It would have been wrong for Kate and Anthony to have got physical any sooner than they did,” Bailey told USA Today of the eventual love scene between the two, which took place later in the season. “And I think the payoff is really earned.”
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Besides, Bailey added, subverting the audience’s expectations results in a more surprising viewing experience.
“What you lose in sex scenes you gain in a deeper human understanding, which hopefully enriches the world so that the future intimacy scenes won’t be the heavy feature, and [you] won’t have to lean on them as much,” Bailey explained. “It’s right to surprise an audience and keep them on their toes a bit.”
“Bridgerton” creator Chris Van Dusen concurred. “We never do a sex scene for the sake of doing a sex scene, and we never will,” he insisted. “All of the intimate scenes have a larger purpose. That was true for Season 1. It’s definitely true for Season 2.”
Jonathan Bailey is dishing on Bridgerton!
“Bridgerton’s” leading man, Jonathan Bailey, has added a new job to his resume — bedtime story reader for calm.The actor, who plays Viscount Anthony Bridgerton in the Netflix series, now has a story on the Calm app. Called “Love Letter from an Englishman,” the English actor uses his dulcet tones aimed at helping folks drift off to sleep.“Hello there, this is Jonny Bailey, reporting for sleep story duty,” Bailey says in the story, a clip of which you can play above.
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TheWrap: What is the strangest place you have seen your face because you’re all over merch now? And, by the way, I did do some searching before I talked to you, and I saw Regé-Jean Page as a car air freshener (Note: unofficial merch).Jonathan Bailey: Are you kidding? That’s amazing.But let’s talk about you, Jonny Bailey.I wonder. … I don’t know actually. … I’ve seen [myself], maybe on a pencil? … Seeing yourself on, like, a Monopoly board is kind of weird.
Jonathan Bailey is addressing some criticism surrounding season two of Bridgerton.
Telling a different story. Jonathan Bailey addressed the decision to scale back on the sex scenes during season 2 of Bridgerton — and for the actor, it felt like the right choice considering the circumstances.
This Morning viewers were left in hysterics after Alison Hammond started fangirling over Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey on the show Friday. Presented by 47 year old Alison and her co-host Dermot O'Leary, Jonathan was invited on the ITV show to discuss his role on the Netflix period drama's second season. Jonathan, 33, who plays eldest sibling Anthony Bridgerton, also caught the giggles as he struggled to keep his composure watching Alison get excited over his character's sex scenes on the hugely-popular Shondaland hit.Trying to keep her voice serious while talking about the show, Alison said: "Can we just go back to the shaky shaky situation," as she referred to Anthony and Kate Sharma's intimate moments.
WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BRIDGERTON SEASON 2!
Bridgerton” sibling falling in love and finding a partner, thus shifting the focus to new leads in every series. Bailey’s character, though, does feature throughout the books.
HBO‘s fantastic action-comedy series “Barry” hasn’t aired since 2019, as the pandemic hit in early 2020 just after season two ended and threw a wrench into their plans to shoot season three. They ended up shutting down two weeks before the start of filming, with all of the season’s scripts written.
expecting steamy love scenes right off the bat, they had to wait a little longer than usual.Unlike the first season of the Netflix series, the latest chapter in the titular family's story takes a different (translation: simmering, slow-burn) approach in building up the romance between eldest Bridgerton sibling, Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), and his love interest, Kate (Simone Ashley). As the season begins, Anthony has his eye on Kate's younger sister and the newly minted «diamond» of the season, Edwina (Charithra Chandran), because — as he says right off the bat — she ticks all the boxes.
Simone Ashley is opening up about making love on screen.
Jonathan Bailey gets in between Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran for the premiere of Bridgerton‘s season two held at Tate Modern on Tuesday (March 22) in London, England.