In the event you’re refreshing 2025 Netflix launch dates for updates on the Bridgerton Season 4 premiere, you would possibly discover your coronary heart longing, however I did simply learn a hilarious story about filming the prior season that has me eager to repeat the entire collection over again on my Netflix subscription. In honor of the Shondaland manufacturing firm turning 20 years previous, the present’s Season 2 & 3 hair and make-up designer, Erika Ökvist, instructed an incredible story in regards to the time certainly one of Queen Charlotte’s wigs needed to be soundproofed.
Like many followers, certainly one of my favourite elements of Bridgerton is seeing all of the nice Queen Charlotte moments, and her bombastic wigs have simply gotten grander because the collection has gone on. However apparently one wig led to a singular subject on set. I’m speaking in regards to the one in Season 3, Episode 4 with transferring motorized swans circling a lake. Have a look:
It’s clearly beautiful, and so, so extravagant. Right here’s what Erika Ökvist instructed Leisure Weekly in regards to the wig earlier than stepping into the technical difficulties that they had with it:
I did the technical prototype with the clockwork going round, however there wasn’t actually a scene the place that wig slot in season 2. After which after we got here into season 3, I learn the script and I used to be like, ‘Oh! It may be good for this as a result of she’s sitting fairly nonetheless.’
The wonderful Queen Charlotte wig makes an look whereas she is watching a dance efficiency in the identical episode the place Penelope and Colin find yourself getting scorching and heavy in a horse-drawn carriage. With a view to assemble the wig, the hair professional sourced a 3-D printed clockwork and positioned 4 clear swans on prime to create the impact on her wig. It was battery-powered in non-battery instances, however hey, generally a little bit time interval dishonest is price it.
Whereas this wig was truly extra light-weight than loads of Queen Charlotte’s wigs, it did pose a problem for manufacturing when Golda Rosheuvel put it on for the scene. As Ökvist continued:
With the swan swimming round, there was a sound subject. I needed to soundproof the swimming in order that the sound man would nonetheless befriend me on the finish of that scene. And that is one thing you would not have considered. I needed to put sponges and stuff within it to kind of buff it up so that you simply could not hear the clicking, click on, click on. And he or she may nonetheless have it on while doing dialogue.
How humorous is that? As Ökvist additionally shared, they don’t put the wigs on Rosheuvel till she arrives on location as a result of they’re too tall to slot in a automotive. So, it wasn’t till they went to movie the scene that the difficulty was discovered. And Ökvist was fairly intelligent placing sponges within the wig to quiet these hair swans. I can think about on the time it was fairly irritating and hilarious for the forged and crew. Right here’s the wig up shut:
Whereas some followers would possibly declare Bridgerton isn’t sexy sufficient, it’s positively bought wigs upon wigs! Whereas we think about what different wild issues will probably be on Queen Charlotte’s head subsequent time, you’ll be able to take a look at the primary search for Season 4.