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Regé-Jean Page Portays A Royal Struggling To Find His Footing In Shonda Rhimes' 'Bridgerton'
Regé-Jean Page to tap into the role of Bridgerton’s Duke of Hastings, Simon Bassett, who grapples with everything from a fear of disappointing his father to pushing his true love (Phoebe Dynevor) away. “I mean, that doesn’t sound like a common story about men at all,” he told ESSENCE sarcastically over the phone from Los Angeles just weeks before the series’ Netflix premiere, which will serve as Shonda Rhimes’ debut project with the streaming giant.It’s true; narratives about men quelling any sign of vulnerability as per an unspoken rule of virility is not rare in Hollywood—or in life.
