Rhimes made Bridgerton a TV phenomenon but hadn’t written its world. Queen Charlotte is all hers.
. There’s such a beautiful, complex story to be told about a young Black queen’s rise to power. Golda Rosheuvel is so amazing as the-era Charlotte that I started to think I would love to know her journey, especially since we know how it turns out.I think I’m pretty famous for being a person who says I don’t pay attention to fans.
Nobody knows what the real Charlotte’s conversations were like with George or what their love life was like or how she felt showing up there. So I was excited to fill in all the blanks of a character we’d already created.places Black people at the top of was a violent colonial empire that Black people were actually at the bottom of.
Honestly, I have never thought about it that way. I don’t necessarily think about what audiences enjoy. I’m interested in seeing worlds where I’m involved — a show that’s about more than “girl meets guy; guy gets girl.”I’m not looking at anything as an act of progress in terms of the stories we’re telling or who I’m putting at the forefront. It is so basic, in the sense that I’m telling stories I want to watch.
India had that kind of sparkle that makes you want to watch her all the time. But more important, she really seemed to understand from the very beginning, even in the audition rooms, the work of taking a character that’s so well known and so specific down the road and moving backward to figure out how that person would start out. I wasn’t trying to humanize Charlotte as much as I was trying to tell the story of what was most important to her and what she felt needed to be accomplished.
I have not written an outline in 18 years because every time I did, I would stray from it so much. I discover a lot in the writing. I want to see where these characters go, and I’m not going to force them into some plot point..
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