Bridgerton 4, Netflix reveals the protagonist of the fourth season

Who will be the protagonist of the fourth season of Bridgerton? Francesca, Eloise, or Benedict? Fans had already guessed it, but now the official announcement has arrived, directly from Netflix: The new episodes of Bridgerton will focus on the bohemian second-born, Benedictt, who is played by Luke Thompson.

And they will tell that, even though his brothers, elder and younger, are both happily married, Benedict remains reluctant to settle down, until meets a charming Lady in Silver at the masked ball organized by his mother.

The clues about the new protagonist were already hidden in the third season finale. In the epilogue of Bridgerton 3Eloise prepares to leave for Scotland with Francesca Bridgerton (Hannah Dodd), John Stirling (Victor Alli) and Michaela (Masali Baduza), and Benedict tells her he’s not ready to “settle down” yet. «I’ll be there, hiding behind a mask, avoiding suitors like the plague.». Fans have traced the joke back to Julia Quinn’s novel A Gentleman’s Proposalwhich tells the love story of Benedict and Sophie Beckett. In the book, which is inspired by the story of Cinderella, Benedict meets his future bride during a masquerade ball like the one the character refers to in the finale. And now, here is the confirmation that the intuition was correct.

“We’re working to try to get the seasons out more quickly, but it takes eight months to shoot them and then they have to be edited and then dubbed into every language,” explained the showrunner of the series Jess Brownell on the red carpet of the London premiere of the new episodes, hinting that the fourth season will arrive in 2026. “The writing also takes a long time, so we’re on a two-year pace. We’re trying to speed it up, but season 4 will come out at some point in that time frame», he added, calling the fourth season of Bridgerton one of his «finest works».