No Way Back: Regé-Jean Page Happy For ‘Bridgerton’ Character To Be Re-Cast In Netflix Drama That Made Him A Star

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In sad news for Bridgerton fans and particularly for devotees of Regé-Jean Page and his smooth scene-stealing performance in the first season, the British actor has made it emphatically clear he won’t be returning – saying he’s moved on, and inviting Netflix to do the same.

And the actor has confided he hasn’t even yet watched the second season of Shonda Rhimes’s period drama that made him international star and quickly made him the latest subject of the “James Bond conversation.”Page was asked by Variety about the possibility of re-casting his Bridgerton character, the Duke of Hastings, at the premiere of his latest film The Gray Man, when he replied:“They’re free to do as they like.

Shonda and I had a wonderful conversation at the end of Season 1. We were quite happy with how we’d stuck the landing on that one.

I’m still proud of how we stuck the landing on that one.”The plan for Bridgerton, which broke Netflix records on its Christmas Day debut in 2020, has always been to build each season around a different central romance, and in April 2021, Page confirmed he would not be reappearing.