The fan reaction to “Bridgerton” was even bigger than Shonda Rhimes expected. The prolific TV creator is on the new cover of Variety, and in the issue she talked about the uproar when it was announced that star Regé-Jean Page wouldn’t be coming back for season 2 of “Bridgerton”. “What I loved was we were going to create this powerful, exciting, amazing romance,” Rhimes says of the relationship Page’s character Simon, and Phoebe Dynevor’s Daphne. “And then for once in television, they were going to get to have their happily ever after versus — well, you know!
In network television, you have to come up with 15 years of why a couple has to be apart.” READ MORE: ‘Bridgerton’ Producer Shonda Rhimes Says She Was ‘Really Shocked’ By Fans’
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