How ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2 Wrote Out Rege-Jean Page’s Duke of Hastings

It’s been almost a 12 months since Netflix introduced that “Bridgerton” could be bid adieu to Regé-Jean Web page as Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings. So, when Season 2 debuted on the streamer on Friday, the present wasted no time whatsover sharing the place he was.

Simply as within the Julia Quinn books, Season 2 shifts focus to Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate’s (Simone Ashley) love story. Nonetheless, many members of the family launched within the first season pop up — aside from the Duke of Hastings, who merely stayed at house whereas his new spouse Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) returned to the household property for her sister Eloise’s (Claudia Jessie) debut season as an eligible bachelorette.

When Eloise received’t come out of her room to satisfy with the Queen, Daphne turns into impatient, quipping, “Do you notice I left my husband and baby at house for this?”

Final April, Web page spoke to Selection about his exit, noting that his half within the Shonda Rhimes-produced sequence was all the time set to be a “one-season arc.”

“[I thought] ‘That’s attention-grabbing,’ as a result of then it felt like a restricted sequence. I get to come back in, I get to contribute my bit after which the Bridgerton household rolls on,” he stated on the time. “One of many issues that’s completely different about this [romance] style is that the viewers is aware of the arc completes. They arrive in realizing that, so you possibly can tie folks in emotional knots as a result of they’ve that reassurance that we’re going to come back out and we’re going to have the wedding and the child.”

Following the information that he wouldn’t be again — and the general public’s loud response — Rhimes requested Web page if he was desirous about returning.

“Rightfully, he stated, ‘I signed up to do that one beautiful story, this closed-ended storyline. I’m good!’ And I don’t blame him for that. I feel that he was actually good to go away the perfection because the perfection,” she shared with Selection. “Each season we’re telling a special romance story of a special couple. There are eight Bridgerton siblings, and so far as I’m involved, there are eight ‘Bridgerton’ seasons. And possibly extra.”

Rhimes stated that she actually doesn’t assume Web page will ever seem on the interval drama once more, telling Selection, “Right here’s an infinite star now. As I prefer to say, the concept that we might write Regé to face round within the background doesn’t make any sense in any respect to me. What would he do? is what I prefer to say.”