00:00Mi chiamo Lady Whistledown. Non mi conoscete e non mi conoscerete mai, ma vi avverto gentili lettori, io di certo
00:12conosco voi.
00:19So, first of all, can you tell me what attracted you most of this project?
00:24When you know, like, Netflix and Shonda are putting something together, you know, you're going to want to be a
00:33part of it.
00:34It's such an exciting partnership, isn't it? You know, Shonda Rhimes is responsible for some of the most successful things
00:41on telly.
00:42And also, like, an incredibly caring, inspirational person who supports so many people.
00:49You can really see that in the way that the characters have been written. There's so much heart.
00:53So I suppose there was an attraction and a comfort that I found in the script, like a real familiarity,
01:01even with a backdrop that seems so far away from, obviously, where we are today in 2020.
01:09I think, honestly, as an actor, it's so much fun to do something that's very different from the last thing
01:15you've done.
01:16So I went from doing a sitcom and then this is, you know, a period drama, but also I sometimes
01:22found period dramas a little slow.
01:24And then when I got the script for Bridgerton, it felt so different.
01:28I knew it was a period drama, but it felt fresh and funny and quick-witted and all the drama
01:34was happening.
01:35It wasn't sort of drawn out. So that made me really excited about it.
01:39But you don't ever dream that, you know, you're going to work with Shonda Rhimes on this big Netflix show.
01:44It's a real dream. You'd be crazy not to be excited by it, you know.
01:48What did you like most about the evolution of your character throughout the first season?
01:54With Eloise, I suppose, because she sort of comes out, well, literally screaming, literally.
01:59She does, isn't she? She starts by screaming.
02:02I, being able to see her vulnerability and her fear sort of creeping of a future she doesn't desire,
02:13or most certainly doesn't desire the sort of, the one that's been sort of shown to her
02:18by her sort of like, quote unquote, perfect older sister.
02:22That's how Eloise sees her, you know, even though, you know, Daphne's got a very complex set of circumstances.
02:29So seeing her battle with that and her fear and trying to put together a future that feels true to
02:37her intentions
02:37and how she wants to live her life, seeing that complexity of that, I think it has been really exciting
02:44for me.
02:47Penelope is a very complex character because I think you start the series thinking you know who she is.
02:52She's an innocent girl who's heading into the marriage market and she doesn't want to go to the balls yet.
02:58She doesn't want to get married yet, but she doesn't have a choice.
03:02But then when her cousin Marina comes on the scene, things change very quickly for her.
03:06So to play her was fascinating because she goes on a real journey and really changes throughout the series.
03:13And I think it makes you question who you think she is as a person.
03:17But I think that's what makes her feel very real because she is flawed.
03:22And yeah.
03:23Is it difficult to empathize with characters from a time so different from ours?
03:28Was it the biggest challenge of this role?
03:31I mean, with Penelope and Eloise and all the characters really, their battles are not so different from the battles
03:39we struggle with today.
03:41I mean, two young girls trying to find themselves and find themselves to slot into a world that they don't
03:49understand fully and don't really connect with 100%.
03:53I feel like it's incredibly transferable to now.
03:57Actually, I think the empathy was that was quite easy because, you know, the desires and pain and stuff that
04:05doesn't really change.
04:06But I suppose that the backdrop does.
04:08Yeah.
04:09So that felt like quite a, I'm not saying simple thing to do, but definitely not too challenging to transfer
04:15that empathy.
04:16I think the characters are so well written that it makes it easy to empathize with them because you realize
04:22no matter what time they existed in, they're still just human beings.
04:26And they're dealing with the same problems that we're still dealing with today.
04:31You know, there's different expectations upon them, certainly, but you could see them as, you know, as your friends.
04:37You can see, oh, I kind of went, I went through that situation.
04:39I know how this feels.
04:40And I think that's an important thing, playing any character is having a human grounding in it, no matter what
04:46the outside world is around them.
04:48And one last question, is there one thing you absolutely love about that period and one that you are grateful
04:56is different today?
04:58I think the autonomy, freedom and autonomy, like, is something I'm quite fond of now.
05:06But also, I wouldn't mind a nice garden party.
05:09I think maybe this year has taught us to have a really good garden party because there was a time
05:14where that was the only place you could go, really.
05:15So I think the return of an extravagant garden party, that's what I'd be into, yeah.
05:22I think I would love, like, Regency era.
05:25I think it's such a beautiful era.
05:27I think, you know, everyone looked amazing in the costumes.
05:30They just sort of elevate everybody.
05:33They're so soft and beautiful.
05:35So, like, the fashion of that era, if that made a comeback, I would be very happy.
05:39Everything else, I mean, the bad teeth and, I mean, we're past the plague.
05:45But, you know, a lot of preventable diseases.
05:48I think I'm pretty happy to be a modern girl.
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