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‘Bridgerton’ is undergoing a casting shakeup: Ruby Stokes is exiting the Netflix hit as Francesca Bridgerton, and Hannah Dodd is taking over the role.
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00:00Netflix's Bridgerton is undergoing a casting shakeup involving a beloved sibling.
00:05Ruby Stokes, who played Francesca Bridgerton in the Netflix hit, is exiting the series,
00:09with actress Hannah Dodd taking over the role.
00:11Stokes will still stay in the Netflix family, however, having secured the lead on the streamers
00:15Lockwood & Co.
00:16The Netflix and Shondaland series put out a statement describing Francesca as a bit
00:20of a mystery within her chatty, extroverted family.
00:23Francesca's presence on the show has been minimal.
00:26In Bridgerton Season 1, she made a couple of appearances before going to visit her aunt
00:30in Bath.
00:31She was then seen in the first three episodes of Season 2 before disappearing as Stokes was
00:35filming Lockwood & Co.
00:36The popular Netflix series is based on Julia Quinn's romance novels, which follows the Bridgerton
00:41family's search for love, focusing on one sibling per book.
00:45If the Netflix series continues to follow the order of Quinn's novels, Francesca, one of
00:49the youngest siblings, will be the focus of Season 6, based on the sixth book, When He
00:54Was Wicked.
00:55Bridgerton returns to production this summer for the third season of the Netflix hit.
00:59For more on this casting, head to THR.com.
01:02And for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.
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