‘Bridgerton’ Season 2 First Trailer: Netflix’s Blockbuster Romance Drama Turns Up the Heat in a Valentine’s Day Teaser
variety.comKate Aurthur editorNetflix has unveiled the trailer for Season 2 of “Bridgerton,” which became a phenomenon after its December 25, 2020 premiere.
The trailer teases the much-anticipated romance between Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and newcomer Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley), which will be the centerpiece of the season — while also leaning hard into the show’s Lady Whistledown aspect, the anonymous gossip chronicler who in the finale was revealed to be Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan).The second season of “Bridgerton” will premiere on March 25.As broken-hearted “Bridgerton” fans know, Netflix announced last year that Season 1’s breakout star Regé-Jean Page, who played Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, was leaving the show.
In Julia Quinn’s “Bridgerton” romance series — the source material for the show, which is created by Chris Van Dusen, and overseen by executive producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers of Shondaland — each book focuses on a different couple.
In a Variety cover story in November, Rhimes said she wanted Simon and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) to “have their happily ever after.” After the outcry over Page’s departure, though, she did ask him whether he’d want to come back as a guest, as Dynevor will in Season 2:“Rightfully, he said, ‘I signed up to do this one lovely story, this closed-ended storyline.
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