Regé-Jean Page, that’s why he turned down Bridgerton’s second season

“I think one of the bravest things you can do, when you put together a romantic film, is to allow your protagonists to have a happy ending.” Regé-Jean Page, the Duke of Hastings, the man who at the end of last year conquered almost all of the female audience, has returned to talk about Bridgerton: of the reasons that led him to reject a conspicuous economic proposal. “Simon was a disruptive antagonist, who had to rehabilitate himself to find himself through Daphne,” he explained in a long interview with Variety, saying he doesn’t want to add anything to such a perfect ending.

“This is what should have happened,” he reiterated, telling the farewell to the Netflix series as part of a natural process. “To leave Bridgerton it was like finishing high school: a phase of life in which there is, inevitably, fear of the unknown. “Oh my God, I will never make friends who are as good as the ones I have here,” we repeat. Instead, life goes on and you end up making these other friends, ”said the actor, who refused to return as a guest star in the second season of the TV series.

Regé-Jean Page, to whom Duke Simon Hastings has given global popularity, would like to avoid being crushed by a single character, to devote himself more freely to his film career. That, at one time, it was said that it could lead him (also) to be Superman. Then, it seems that his being a black man has held back the producers. “It hurt me,” he reiterated, using the refusal to explain how television and cinema give the possibility to change history. “We people of color are used to looking at the world through the eyes of whites, because it is the whites who are the protagonists. I know what it’s like to look at the world and feel empathy for Superman, because I’ve spent my life doing it. What is truly revolutionary, however, is to bring people to see the world through my eyes, my skin, “he said, singing the praise of the Duke of Hastings, a character who” , the boots, his noble titles has shown that he can perfectly fill a space that belongs to him, the nobility, changing the way the spectator looks at the world ».

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