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Welcome to Bridgerton, the official podcast, your exclusive peek behind the curtain of Shondaland's Bridgerton series.

This season, host Gabrielle Collins, will be doing an episode-by-episode deep dive,

breaking down all of the gossip and behind-the-scenes details.

She'll be joined by Season 2 stars Jonathan Bailey, Simone Ashley, and Sharitha Shandron,

alongside executive producer and director Tom Verica, and many more of your favorite cast and crew.

So let's dive in with the first episode of season two.

Capital R R Rake finds Antony Bridgerton on the quest for the perfect wife, as long as she meets

his list of requirements.

Kate and Antony briefly meet and Edwina is chosen as the diamond of the season.

And to our surprise, Lord Featherington arrives, and he's not old or

ugly at all. Today, host Gabrielle Collins is joined by Nicola Cochlin, who plays Penelope Featherington,

and Tricia Brock, director of episodes 201 and 202.

Hi, Nicola. Hello, how are you?

Welcome back to Bridgeton, the official podcast.

Thank you for having me back.

I'm glad I didn't misbehave too much last time that I was afforded a second invitation.

So what was it like returning, though, the first time on set?

It was very surreal, actually, because, I mean, we wrapped season one end of February 2020,

so before the world shut down. So it's like, it was very weird. You know, you film the show,

you finish the world changes, then it comes out. It's this like monster hit and then you're going back. So for a lot of us, it was like, it was like one of the first times I'd like left the house in a significant amount of time because, you know, we had no premieres. We had no nothing. We didn't get to, it was sad because we didn't get to like celebrate our work together. We did it like this over Zoom, but we didn't actually get any

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