Now, Chandran is poised to break out with the kind of performance she never got to see. “I don't even think I was upset about it, because it was just such a fact.” “Because I thought, ‘Okay, well, I'm never going to get the chance to do that,’” she recalls. While Chandran was a fan of period romance growing up (obviously, BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice adaptation was a particular favorite), she always held such stories at arm’s length. As sparks secretly fly between Kate and Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey), high society’s roguish but most eligible bachelor, and he officially courts Edwina, the sisters waltz their way through the season’s central love triangle.Īdjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury, Charithra Chandran as Edwina Sharma, Shelley Conn as Mary Sharma, Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in the second season of Bridgerton, streaming now on Netflix. Where Edwina is impeccably sweet and well-mannered, Kate has a polished toughness, all the better to guide and protect her younger sister. “You see us in all our glory, and our culture is an important part of us, but it's not the only thing that defines us.”īridgerton’s second season introduces the Sharma family, Mary (Shelley Conn) and her daughters Edwina and Kate (Simone Ashley), who’ve returned from a kind of social exile in their native India to play the London marriage market. “It's quietly revolutionary that we just exist-we have joy, and love, and romance-and our skin color only adds to that beauty,” Chandran says. When it came to giving her all to a dream of performing professionally, Bridgerton star Charithra Chandran says she reached a moment when she realized, "It’s now or never-I have to go for it.
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