The ‘Bridgerton’ Cast, Channing Tatum and More Stars Reveal What It’s Like Working With Pets on Set
usmagazine.comVIP costars! While many human actors get top billing on most TV shows and movie sets, it’s often their four-legged counterparts who end up stealing the show.“Newton is beloved, and I always wanted to include him in this season,” Bridgerton showrunner Chris Van Dusen told Entertainment Weekly in a February 2022 interview about the second season of the Netflix drama. “There’s a little arc for him that audiences can look forward to.”Season 2 of the period series, which debuted in March 2022 on the streaming platform, follows Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me novel and eldest brother Anthony’s journey to find love.
As Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony crosses paths with Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley), he also comes toe-to-toe with her faithful canine companion: a corgi named Newton.“I’m really good with dogs, so he responded to me well,” the Sex Education alum told EW that February of the pooch. “He was a little bit sass and goes off and does his own thing, but I like to think when we were together, he listened to me.
Whenever we would do a line run and Newton was there, he would just get in the middle of the circle and roll on his back and be like, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ That was quite cute.”Ashley continued: “One of the buildings we filmed at, there was pebbles on the driveway.
I’d have him on the leash and he’d just be eating the stones and pooping out stones in between takes.”Channing Tatum, for his part, worked closely with a Belgian Malinois pup in his directorial debut, Dog.
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