Nicola Coughlan is “excited” for Bridgerton season three to incorporate a queer love story. (Netflix)
Hike up your bosoms and tighten your corsets, Bridgerton is again for season three. And there might lastly be a queer romance on the horizon.
Regardless of that includes LGBTQ+ royalty within the form of out homosexual actor Jonathan Bailey, Netflix’s upper-crust romance drama has by no means included a queer love story. It’s a tragic incontrovertible fact that has prompted some friction throughout the present’s massive LGBTQ+ fan base, with some describing its earlier inclusion of a homosexual intercourse scene in a season one trailer as “queerbaiting”.
The trailer for the primary season in 2020 included two males having intercourse, nevertheless it turned out to be a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it second between minor characters, and followers have been left with a bitter style of their mouths. Season two additionally didn’t ship, with a lot of it specializing in Bailey’s straight character Lord Anthony, the eldest member of the Bridgerton household, looking for a spouse.
As followers put together for the primary half season three to drop subsequent month – with half two set to reach in June – issues might be about to alter. Chatting with Pleasure, the drama’s new showrunner Jess Brownell revealed {that a} queer love story is coming our means.
“It is a present about love in its many kinds and it’s solely proper for us to foreground queer love and to inform queer tales,” she mentioned. “I need to see extra queer pleasure on my screens and that was undoubtedly a precedence for me once I stepped into the showrunner position.”
The author refused to be drawn on whether or not the queer storyline will probably be launched by new characters or whether or not an present one is about to discover their sexuality.
“How precisely that performs out over this season and the following couple seasons, I can’t say particularly, however I’ll say I’m excited for followers to see that,” she mentioned.
Nicola Coughlan, who performs youngest Featherington daughter Penelope, added that she can not watch for the LGBTQ+ love story.
Though Coughlan performed a lesbian in Channel 4’s Derry Ladies, she’s unlikely to be on the centre of this homosexual storyline, with season three set to give attention to Penelope’s curiosity in Colin Bridgerton.
Whereas Bridgerton is about within the Regency period, it’s actually a “world that has by no means existed”, she added. Due to this fact, queer love may be very a lot permitted.
“I believe there’s a lot area there for queer love tales and I believe all love tales should be celebrated,” Coughlan mentioned. “I hope in time we get a number one queer love story on this present.”
Final yr, Bailey shared his hope that Bridgerton would come with extra LGBTQ+ illustration, whereas Julia Quinn, the writer of the e-book sequence that impressed the Netflix hit, has beforehand mentioned it might be a good suggestion to convey LGBTQ+ characters into the combo.
Followers of the present have had just a little style of queer illustration already, with the spin-off Queen Charlotte that includes a homosexual romance between the monarch’s assistant, Brimsley, and the king’s secretar, Reynolds.
Half considered one of Bridgerton season three is because of drop on Netflix on 16 Might, with half two set to stream from 13 June.