April 23, 2024
https://tvline.com/2021/02/15/bridgerton-season-2-kate-cast-simone-ashley/

Bridgerton Season 2 is beginning to take shape, with the casting of a significant brand-new character.

Simone Ashley, who on Netflix’s Sex Education played “Untouchables” member Olivia, will fill the function of Kate Sharma (Sheffield, in the books), a love interest for Jonathan Bailey’s extremely qualified Anthony Bridgerton, TVLine has actually verified. Kate is referred to as a wise, reckless London beginner “who suffers no fools– Anthony quite consisted of.”

” We’re truly going to be [focusing on] the oldest Bridgerton bro next season, Lord Anthony Bridgerton,” showrunner Chris Van Dusen exposed last month on the Today program. “We left him at the end of the very first season at a little a crossroads, so I’m anticipating leaping in and finding how he fares on the marital relationship market.”

Kate is amongst “a lot of brand-new characters” Van Dusen stated to anticipate throughout the hit series’ sophomore run, which is based upon author Julia Quinn’s 2nd Bridgerton book, The Viscount Who Enjoyed Me

Ashley’s previous TELEVISION credits likewise consist of the ITV miniseries The Sis and the UK variation of Broadchurch Her casting was initially reported by our sis website Deadline.

Bridgerton was restored in late January, hardly 4 weeks after Season 1 debuted on Netflix to what would be boffo numbers.