This is an I-Heart podcast.

Best of luck to you, brother.

You shall certainly need it for Susan.

Dearest gentle reader.

Did you miss me?

Tighten your corsets and grab your whistle downs because Bridgerton, the official podcast, is back for a second season.

Thank you for having me back. I'm glad I didn't misbehave too much last time that I was afforded a second invitation.

This time, host Gabrielle Collins is embarking on an episode-by-episode deep dive with some of your favorite actors and directors from the set of Bridgeton to answer all your burning questions.

My big question is why bees?

Why bees, Julia?

Whether it's your third rewatch or your 30th, these exclusive interviews are sure to give you some never-before-heard stories from behind the scenes of Bridgeton,

alongside a healthy dose of laughter, heartfelt experiences, and plenty of gossip.

I remember being so nervous, and I had some line about Egyptian camel jockeys or something.

I was like, that's not going to make it in, so.

I joke that the Bridgetons have turned croquet into a blood sport. It didn't have to be Paul Mall. But the interaction in that scene is so familiar to anybody who ever had a brother or sister. In historical dramas, I got into any number of bits of hot water with producers when I said, can we just have someone of color in this drama? And they just wouldn't go for it. They would always say, oh no, no, no, there were no people of colour in Britain

at this time, which of course is nonsense, by the way. And I was just astonished and gratified to see

people that look like me and look like my friends in historical drama. The Bridgetons will call each other out.

They'll tell each other like how it is, you know.

And I think that's what makes them such a close-knit family.

And then we see that kind of grow within the charmers.

It was very weird. You know, you film the show, you finish the world changes,

and then you're going back.

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