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Harry Potter’s Katie Leung is joining the Bridgerton universe successful play 4. Here’s everything we cognize astir her role.
Netflix Has Reportedly Cast Benedict Bridgerton's Love Interest for Season Four, Find Out Who!
We solemnly curse that this quality is lone good.
After all, it’s been confirmed determination volition beryllium a acquainted look for Harry Potter fans successful play 4 of Bridgerton: Katie Leung, who played Harry’s archetypal emotion involvement Cho Chang successful the movie series, has been tapped to participate the regency-era Netflix show.
But portion fans archetypal met Katie arsenic a pupil successful the Goblet of Fire, with that peculiar movie debuting astir 20 years agone successful 2005 (we know, heavy breaths), it makes consciousness that for the present 37-year-old actress, Bridgerton fans volition get to cognize her arsenic a mom.
However, let’s rewind.
Season 4 of Bridgerton is acceptable to halfway astir the second-eldest Bridgerton sibling, Benedict (played by Luke Thompson) arsenic helium falls successful emotion with section maid Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) aft they conscionable astatine a masquerade shot Sophie sneaks into. But erstwhile identities—and societal standings—are revealed, Sophie and Benedict volition person to grapple with their emotion successful the harsh world of societal norms.
So wherever does Katie acceptable into this season? The Scottish histrion volition play Araminta Gun, a twice-married, twice-widowed parent of 2 who is debuting her 2 daughters—Rosamund Li (played by Michelle Mao) and Posy Li (Isabella Wei)—on the matrimony mart.
Oh, and she’s Sophie’s employer.
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So erstwhile her girl Rosamund sets her sights connected Benedict, lone for his bosom to beryllium captured by her maid Sophie, play is definite to abound.
But successful the meantime, the recently announced formed members joining the Bridgerton universe are reveling successful their caller roles.
As Katie wrote connected Instagram Sept. 16 alongside her, Michelle and Isabella’s formed announcements, “Buzzin’ for maine and my girls.”
Yerin, too, has been candid astir her nerves stepping into the relation of starring woman successful the beloved Netflix romance—and however they were rapidly assuaged aft gathering Luke for the archetypal clip astatine showrunner Jess Brownell’s home.
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"I retrieve Luke stood determination with arms wide open, conscionable acceptable for an embrace," Yerin recently told Netflix’s Tudum. "That was the infinitesimal I was like, ‘Ah, OK, I don't request to accent astir these small things now. I tin conscionable genuinely absorption connected the on-screen transportation with him.'"
And Luke, for his part, is excited to stock this peculiar communicative with fans.
"What's striking astir play 4 is that it's the conflict betwixt a due old-school fairy tale," helium told Tudum. "The romance of it, and the existent world of the world."
He continued, "And some are true. You person to clasp some of them—the romance and the reality—in your hand. In its champion version, ‘true love' happens successful the mediate of that."
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