With the raunchy Regency drama soon returning, Luke Thompson who plays Benedict tells @mulkerrins about becoming an instant sex symbol after ten years in theatre thetimes.co.uk/article/luke-t…
“I sort of feel quite neutral about it really,” he says with a grin. “And I’m not talking about my body necessarily, but obviously it’s lovely to live in people’s imaginations. That’s what you hope for, right?”
So he doesn’t mind being objectified? Being, well, a sex symbol?
🗣 “No. Well, you know, if indeed I am,” he adds, hurriedly. “Letting people put something of themselves onto you – I think that’s lovely”
🗣 “No. Well, you know, if indeed I am,” he adds, hurriedly. “Letting people put something of themselves onto you – I think that’s lovely”
Along with riding, fencing and drawing lessons in preparation for the show, Thompson was also assigned a personal trainer “for the bum scenes, I guess. Well, just all those sort of scenes. You’re in a romance show, so it’s part of the deal,” he says, shrugging 
The show’s runaway success – aside from all the eye candy and innuendo – is, he believes, that it’s Regency but with a Shonda Rhimes twist: that provided by the legendary showrunner and Bridgerton’s executive producer
🗣 “It’s a period drama, but it’s not Downton Abbey. It’s got diversity and this very modern tendency.”
“Actually, yes, going to a ball and looking at all these people with their dance cards is a bit like Tinder. It’s the same. It’s not the same but, you know, it sort of is”
“Actually, yes, going to a ball and looking at all these people with their dance cards is a bit like Tinder. It’s the same. It’s not the same but, you know, it sort of is”
Thompson says he relates to Benedict’s artistic struggles.
🗣 “I think he spends a lot of the time being either very self-deprecating about himself, saying, ‘I’m the most dreadful artist in the world’, or a bit high on himself. I can identify with that”
🗣 “I think he spends a lot of the time being either very self-deprecating about himself, saying, ‘I’m the most dreadful artist in the world’, or a bit high on himself. I can identify with that”
The third season begins filming this summer – and, if the format follows the books, it will be Benedict’s turn as the romantic lead.
But, adds Thompson, “They do use the books as a format, but they can do their own thing. So who knows what will happen? There’s a lot to explore”
But, adds Thompson, “They do use the books as a format, but they can do their own thing. So who knows what will happen? There’s a lot to explore”
So, will we explore more of Benedict’s sexuality this season?
🗣 “It’s Bridgerton – there will be sex. Season two isn’t the same. This is Anthony’s world now, so everything is different. And the sex is different, like all the best sex”
🗣 “It’s Bridgerton – there will be sex. Season two isn’t the same. This is Anthony’s world now, so everything is different. And the sex is different, like all the best sex”
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