Gather round if you’ve already watched all four episodes of Bridgerton season four, part one: We have things to discuss. Specifically the show’s Staircase Scene™, aka the moment Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Baek finally hook up in a passionate moment on a staircase—only for Benedict to ruin it by asking Sophie if she wants to “be my mistress.”
So, what was filming the scene like? A little rough! Luke Thompson tells E! News that “What we actually did is we both got ill. But different scenes. We kept falling ill!”
Meanwhile, Yerin Ha adds, “We were very mentally a little bit weak, a little bit nervous, my immune system was down. But no, in all seriousness,I do think that with those scenes, it is just an extension of an emotion, and it’s there because it has to be, not because we’re just doing a steamy scene for a steamy scene’s sake.”
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Luke also chatted about the significance of their hookup being on a staircase: “Bridgerton is very good at making the scenes feel actually poetic. There’s a brilliant metaphor there about meeting at the center of the staircase. To be able to engage with that makes it seem like it’s a scene like any other scene. They feel meaningful. Put it that way: They don’t feel sort of tokenistic, which then makes it much more fun.”
Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 is currently streaming on Netflix, and Part 2 drops next month.
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