Shonda Rhimes has credited Golda Rosheuvel for being one of the main reasons “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” exists. Rosheuvel takes on the role of Queen Charlotte in the spinoff, and creator Shonda Rhimes recently gushed about the actress in an interview with ET Canada’s Morgan Hoffman.
Rhimes said of when she realized she wanted to focus a whole series on Charlotte: “I’d been talking about it with the head of Netflix a little bit.
He brought the suggestion to me, and I think I had always been fascinated by Golda. “You know, there’s something about the way she portrays Queen Charlotte that was really fascinating to me, and it made me really start to wonder about these other women. “So getting to tell the story, which is an epic love story, was really fun for me.
But also getting to show a queen’s, a young queen’s rise to power was exciting too.” READ MORE: ‘Queen Charlotte’: Golda Rosheuvel Says Actress India Amarteifio ‘Has Taken The Role And Run With It’ In ‘Bridgerton’ Spin-Off Rhimes added when asked how hard it was to cast a younger version of the character, given Rosheuvel did such a great job.
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