\n<\/aside>\nWhen it came to stepping up to the plate as Bridgerton\u2019s leading man in the long-awaited new season, Luke Thompson had help on offer from his predecessor \u2013 but was determined to forge his own path, even if it meant risking \u201ca few mistakes\u201d along the way.<\/p>\n
Season two star Jonathan Bailey \u2013 AKA Anthony Bridgerton (who is also, of course,\u00a0Wicked<\/em>\u2019s Fiyero) \u2013 has previously revealed in interviews that he put together a type of \u201cmanual\u201d for his on-screen siblings who would later follow in his footsteps in taking on the central role as their love story unfolded.<\/p>\nFans were given the steamy romance between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) during the last season of the popular Netflix series \u2013 and this time around, it\u2019s bohemian second son Benedict who falls in love with a mysterious masked woman, Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha).<\/p>\n
Despite many of his siblings being happily married, Benedict has long been loath to settle down \u2013 but he abruptly finds that stance flipped on its head after encountering the unidentified Lady in Silver at his mother\u2019s masquerade ball.<\/p>\nBridgerton\u2019s newest leading man, Luke Thompson, has opened up about the secret handbook left behind by one of the show\u2019s most famous alums. \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn a\u00a0Cinderella<\/em>-esque twist, Benedict\u2019s subsequent society-wide search for her proves fruitless, as she is, in fact, a maid who\u2019d managed to slip into the glamorous event unnoticed.<\/p>\n(Well,\u00a0almost<\/em>\u00a0unnoticed).<\/p>\nWhile it was reassuring to know that Bailey\u2019s advice was available \u201cwere [Thompson] to need it\u201d as he faced potential \u201cproblems and pressures\u201d during filming, the actor, 37, felt it was a deeply \u201cpersonal\u201d experience to play the frontline Bridgerton.<\/p>\nSeason two star Jonathan Bailey has previously revealed in interviews that he put together a type of \u201cmanual\u201d for his on-screen siblings who would later follow in his footsteps in taking on the central role as their love story unfolded. WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI did want to \u2026 just work it out myself. I think you only really learn properly by making a few mistakes long the way \u2013 and so, actually, I did,\u201d he told news.com.au ahead of season four\u2019s premiere.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a personal experience that you sort of shape yourself, and different actors feel different pressures. So I tried to sort of make my own way through it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, for Sydney-born actress Yerin Ha, stepping into the world of\u00a0Bridgerton<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 and as its starring lady, no less \u2013 could have proven daunting had it not been for the symbolism of the first scene she shot with Thompson.<\/p>\nJonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton and Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton being tended to by barbers in \u201cBridgerton.\u201d LIAM DANIEL\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn it, the chemistry-laden pair is seen sharing a carefree moment as they fly a kite together, away from society\u2019s gaze, with Sophie initially reluctant to participate in such an intimate activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was beautiful, because I feel like it was a nice parallel in terms of for Sophie \u2026 she\u2019s letting her walls down in that scene, and it was also a confirmation of like, \u2018oh, I can let my walls down, too\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old added: \u201cIt just felt like we\u2019d been doing it forever. It was such a beautiful day.\u201d<\/p>\n(L to R) Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton, Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in Episode 208 of\u201d Bridgerton.\u201d LIAM DANIEL\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhen\u00a0Bridgerton<\/em>\u00a0finally makes its long-awaited return on January 29 after eighteen months, millions of fans will be tuning in to see how Benedict and Sophie\u2019s story unfolds \u2013 including, it turns out, celebrity devotees such as Jennifer Lopez.<\/p>\nThe singer and actress is such a dedicated viewer that she even threw a lavish\u00a0Bridgerton<\/em>-themed bash for her 55th birthday last year, posting pictures of the elegant affair on social media.<\/p>\nIt came as a delightful surprise to the hordes of other\u00a0Bridgerton<\/em>\u00a0fans all over the world \u2013 but some of the cast already had an inkling of her obsession, thanks to a subtle Instagram act.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was beautiful, because I feel like it was a nice parallel in terms of for Sophie \u2026 she\u2019s letting her walls down in that scene, and it was also a confirmation of like, \u2018oh, I can let my walls down, too\u2019,\u201d Thompson said of his leading lady. LIAM DANIEL\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201c[Lopez] followed me [on Instagram] \u2013 and that\u2019s when I knew!\u201d Newton, 32, told news.com.au, with co-star Hannah Dodd (Francesca Bridgerton) also chiming in: \u201cShe followed me as well!\u201d<\/p>\n
Newton added: \u201cYeah, that\u2019s when we knew that there was a Bridgey fan.\u201d<\/p>\n
The US\u2019 former First Lady\u2019s admission of being a \u201cBridgey fan\u201d was also unexpected, according to Thompson \u2013 especially as it came with quite a racy statement.<\/p>\n(L-R) Ruth Gemmell, Claudia Jessie, Jonathan Bailey, and Luke Thompson in \u201cBridgerton\u201d (Season 2, ep. 201, aired March 25, 2022). \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI was quite surprised that Jill Biden watched it \u2026 she got asked about one of the sex episodes, and she was like, \u2018yeah, I know about episode six\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI really remember that and thinking like \u2026. \u2018Wow!\u2019\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n
Part 1 of\u00a0Bridgerton<\/em>\u00a0season 4 (episodes 1-4) will be available to stream on Netflix from January 29, with Part 2 (5-8) on February 26.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it came to stepping up to the plate as Bridgerton\u2019s leading man in the long-awaited new season, Luke Thompson had help on offer from his predecessor \u2013 but was determined to forge his own path, even if it meant risking \u201ca few mistakes\u201d along the way. Season two star Jonathan Bailey \u2013 AKA Anthony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2236174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[25538,348497,21741,305572,23191],"class_list":["post-2236173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-actors","tag-bridgerton","tag-entertainment","tag-jonathan-bailey","tag-netflix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bridgertons-Luke-Thompson-opens-up-about-co-star-Jonathan-Baileys-secret.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236175,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236173\/revisions\/2236175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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