00:00Ultimately, we didn't want to squander the voice of Julie Andrews.
00:04And I think Whistledown is such a useful device narratively, thematically, and in terms of the conflict in the show.
00:11So now we have a genuine mystery about who Whistledown is because it's not from the books.
00:16Is there anything you can tease about if she'll be a friend or a foe to the Bridgertons?
00:21Interesting. You know, the Bridgertons are good gossip.
00:24And any Whistledown worth their salt is going to know that they're going to have to go after the Bridgertons.
00:30And I would say we wouldn't, you know, create a new Whistledown if she wasn't worth her salt.
00:35We knew Penelope was going to come forward as Whistledown.
00:38I think her stepping into, you know, her power is in the book, and it only felt right for her
00:45to do that in her season.
00:46But once she became a public Whistledown, there was only, there's only so much story that, you know, can be
00:54had from that.
00:55Because the stakes are a lot lower.
00:56There's no secret being kept.
00:59I love the story we did get to tell this season about accountability and Penelope wrestling with, you know, how
01:06to deal with people knowing their writing about her.
01:09But I don't know.
