Should you love romance novels and a number of the greatest rom-coms of all time, the possibilities are fairly good that you just additionally take pleasure in Bridgerton. The Regency-era drama is one which viewers with a Netflix subscription can not cease speaking about, and whereas the 2025 TV schedule isn’t set to carry us extra episodes, with information popping out just lately that Bridgerton Season 4 has accomplished filming to organize for its 2026 debut, the present is unquestionably on everybody’s minds. Star Jonathan Bailey was simply requested about how being on the sequence has impacted his actual life, and I can actually get behind his hilariously sincere reply about romance on the hit.
What Did Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey Say About Romance On The Show?
Look, few can deny the ability of romance because it’s introduced on Bridgerton. The romantic drama got here out scorching and gave followers a few of its sexiest scenes (together with that much-talked-about Taylor Swift-scored bang-a-thon) simply in Season 1. In reality, with the bingeable Netflix present persevering with to ship adored e book scenes like Penelope and Colin in entrance of the mirror, that’s unlikely to finish any time quickly.
When Jurassic World Rebirth star Jonathan Bailey stopped by Chicken Shop Date, the host requested a query about his time on the sequence (which he plans to be part of for the length of the mega-hit) that a variety of followers may also have: If engaged on Bridgerton has made him “higher at romance.” His response was sincere, however would possibly shock you, because the star replied:
No! [Laughs] It’s a fantasy, isn’t it? Romance is grounded and actual.
This may increasingly seem to be a knock on the sequence that made him well-known, however it’s actually not. All that Bailey is doing is admitting that the present primarily based on all these Bridgerton books is what a variety of fiction is: a heightened type of actuality. If we watched and had been inundated with relationships that had been fully “grounded and actual” it’s extremely seemingly that this story set amongst London’s ton wouldn’t be as standard as it’s, or encourage as a lot devotion to sure quotes and revealing strains from the characters.
Most of our favourite TV exhibits contain a wholesome dose of regularly upping the stakes to unrealistic ranges simply in order that we keep intrigued within the tales and characters, and it’s the identical factor right here. Even although I can think about that individuals in all probability used extra flowery language and perhaps engaged in larger shows of affection again within the day, as seen on the attractive drama, I additionally know that every part has been turned as much as 11 for us.
I actually like the truth that the Depraved track and dance man (who’ll return in Depraved: For Good later this yr) not solely acknowledges that, however the actuality that as a rule true romance entails being within the day-to-day with somebody to share in life’s ups, downs and WTF-just-happened moments. It will possibly’t all the time be getting caught within the pounding rain and, effectively…pounding underneath a gazebo to cross the time.
Generally it’s simply making physician’s appointments to your companion as a result of you understand their nervousness makes it exhausting for them to do it, and, in the long term, it’s stuff like that that actually issues.