Why the casting of an Indian British lead in season 2 of 'Bridgerton' is historically accurate.
Simone Ashley, known for her role as Olivia Hanan n Netflix's "Sex Education," has been cast in season two of "Bridgerton."When the British actress Simone Ashley was cast as the romantic lead in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s breakout hit drama “Bridgerton,” many fans of South Asian descent were thrilled — because it means that viewers of historical costume dramas will finally get the chance to see a South Asian woman in a leading romantic role.
She said she was inspired to read “The Viscount Who Loved Me,” the 2000 romance novel by Julia Quinn that the show's second season will be based on, after learning about Ashley’s casting. Bhuiyan’s debut novel “Counting Down with You,” about a Bangladeshi American teen who reluctantly agrees to date her school’s resident bad boy, will be released May 4. “We deserve to see fun romances that don't necessarily center on being brown. We deserve fun love stories.
But alongside the excitement around Ashley’s casting was also some criticism on social media about the accuracy of a woman of South Asian descent being accepted by the British aristocracy during the Regency era, which is when “Bridgerton” is set. The first season of “Bridgerton” featured several Black characters in its ensemble cast, including Regé-Jean Page as the main character Simon Basset and Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte.
Before marrying, Kitty was considered the writer Thomas Carlyle’s muse, and references to the pair appeared in his essays and gossip items at the time. “There’s a reference to Carlyle having met them in London, so that’s obviously the kind of high society that ‘Bridgerton’ is set in,” Ghosh said.
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