Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton has made its first new addition to its upcoming second season as Deadline reports Simone Ashley (Sex Education) has landed a lead role.
Instead of continuing to follow the lives of Daphne and Simon (played in the first season by Phoebe Dynevor and Regé-Jean Page), the second season will instead follow Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony Bridgerton, the oldest of the Bridgerton siblings as he tries to find a wife after his break-up in the first season.
Ashley will portray Kate Sharma, the new love interest of the series. Kate Sharma is described as “newly arrived in London, Kate is a smart, headstrong young woman who suffers no fools — Anthony Bridgerton very much included.”
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Production on season two of Bridgerton is expected to begin in London sometime this spring.
Get ready to fall in love with Simone Ashley, who will play Kate in Season 2 of Bridgerton.
Kate is a smart, headstrong young woman who suffers no fools — Anthony Bridgerton very much included. ` pic.twitter.com/xdVilOjL4Y
— Netflix (@netflix) February 15, 2021
Based on Julia Quinn’s best-selling series of novels, spanning from 2000 to 2013, this smart feminist take on Regency England romance unveils the glittering, wealthy, sexual, painful, funny, and sometimes lonely lives of the women and men in London’s high society marriage mart as told through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
The series is set in the world of Regency London high society, unveiling a seductive and sumptuous world composed of intricate rules and dramatic power struggles, in which no one is ever on steady ground. At the center of it all is the funny, witting and clever Bridgerton family, comprised of eight siblings who must navigate the upper ten-thousands’ marriage mart in search of romance, adventure, and love.
Bridgerton stars Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page, Golda Rosheuvel, Jonathan Bailey, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Nicola Coughlan, Ruby Barker, Sabrina Bartlett, Ruth Gemmell, Adjoa Andoh, Polly Walker, Bessie Carter and Harriet Cains and Julie Andrews as the voice of Lady Whistledown.
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