We are head over heels in love with all things Bridgerton. The relationships, the characters, the Gossip Girl-meets-Jane Austen storylines. After waiting far too long for a sneak peek of season 3, Netflix *finally* released exclusive images that continue to have us shipping Polin (Penelope and Colin, of course.). Not only that, but Netflix shared more images from the upcoming season and it looks like things will be heating up in the new season!
Here’s the latest season 3 Bridgerton news, as well as some fan theories that might just carry us into season 4.
Why is Lady Danbury so important in Bridgerton?
We loved getting to know more about Lady Danbury in Queen Charlotte, and turns out, we weren’t the only ones! At a Bridgerton x International Delight event in NYC, we talked to Lady Danbury herself, Adjoa Andoh! “In seasons one and two, I had a pretty strong sense of who Lady Danbury was,” Andoh says in our exclusive interview. “Doing Queen Charlotte filled in a lot of the early life for me in concert with Shonda [Rhimes’] enormous storytelling brain. And so I could take all of that into season three.”
Andoh also says that since the Bridgerton’s grandfather was the love of Lady Danbury’s life, it explains why she cares so much about their family: “You understand the investment she has in the Bridgerton family more because they are his grandchildren, and so I am invested in them because I loved him.”
But for Bridgerton season 3, we’ll also see a stronger connection between Lady Danbury and Penelope Featherington. “I think Lady Danbury sees a lot of her young self in Penelope,” she continues. “I think she’s sort of an overlooked item who is shoved in one direction just as Penelope is an overlooked item who no one thinks is ever gonna get married. So both of these women in their young lives have had to understand that if they are gonna survive, they have to live on their own natural brilliance, strategy, intelligence, and gifts.”
“[Season 3 of Bridgerton] made me sad and it made me happy and all those things in between because it just reminded me of being the wallflower teenager that I was,” Andoh says. “I think there’s heaps of us out there, not just women, I think there’s heaps of us out there who have felt that we are regarded as less than by our peers. And so, this is the season for us.”
Andoh’s advice for the wallflowers out there? “I have a friend who says, ‘What’s for you won’t pass you by,'” she says. “Don’t wait and pine, hang out with your friends have a fabulous life. The world is amazing and interesting and just dive into your curiosity. Think about what’s fabulous about you and lean hard in on that and don’t wait for someone else to give you the confirmation that you are as fabulous as you should know you are.”
