If you happen to love romance novels and among the greatest rom-coms of all time, the probabilities are fairly good that you simply additionally take pleasure in Bridgerton. The Regency-era drama is one which viewers with a Netflix subscription can’t cease speaking about, and whereas the 2025 TV schedule isn’t set to deliver us extra episodes, with information popping out just lately that Bridgerton Season 4 has accomplished filming to arrange 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 Present?
Look, few can deny the facility of romance because it’s offered 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 truth, 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 Rooster Store 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 loads of followers may additionally have: If engaged on Bridgerton has made him “higher at romance.” His response was sincere, however may shock you, because the star replied:
No! [Laughs] It’s a fantasy, isn’t it? Romance is grounded and actual.
This will likely seem to be a knock on the sequence that made him well-known, nevertheless it’s actually not. All that Bailey is doing is admitting that the present primarily based on all these Bridgerton books is what loads of fiction is: a heightened type of actuality. If we watched and have been inundated with relationships that have been fully “grounded and actual” it’s extremely possible that this story set amongst London’s ton wouldn’t be as in style as it’s, or encourage as a lot devotion to sure quotes and revealing strains from the characters.
Most of our favourite TV reveals contain a wholesome dose of continually 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. Although I can think about that folks most likely used extra flowery language and perhaps engaged in greater shows of affection again within the day, as seen on the attractive drama, I additionally know that the whole lot 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 may well’t at all times be getting caught within the pounding rain and, nicely…pounding beneath a gazebo to go the time.
Generally it’s simply making physician’s appointments to your accomplice as a result of their anxiousness makes it arduous for them to do it, and, in the long term, it’s stuff like that that basically issues.