Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCasting Julie Andrews as the voice of narrator Lady Whistledown on Netflix’s new buzzy period drama “Bridgerton” was such a tightly held secret that the stars of the show didn’t even know about it.Regé-Jean Page, who plays the dashing Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, says he found out when it was announced on Twitter. “I was on the train.
I was coming back from a boxing session,” Page says on the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I literally gawked like, ‘Ah!’ on the train and everyone looked at me…I kind of melted into my seat in embarrassment.
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