[theme music playing]
[David] Yeah.
[crowd cheering]
Yes. Everyone, welcome to The Netflix Afterparty.
With me, as always, are Fortune Feimster and London Hughes.
[cheering]
Guys, tonight we have the cast of Bridgerton, whoa, joining us.
If you haven't seen the show go watch it
because we have a ton of spoilers coming up.
Those who've watched it know it's Gossip Girl with petticoats.
Take a look.
We find ourselves beside each other. I'd like to think you happy about that.
It'd be better if you refrain from thinking about me.
I'm aware of your reputation.
I'm anything but interested in you.
Lady Whistledown has all but declared me ineligible.
-Whistledown. -Whistledown.
[Daphne] If I'm unable to find a husband,
-I shall be ruined. -[Simon] Perhaps there is an answer.
[thrilling music plays]
We can pretend to form an attachment.
A pairing like that would be most enchanting indeed.
[Simon] Every presumptuous mother will leave me alone,
every suitor will look at you.
[laughs, snorts]
Stare into my eyes. If this is to work,
we must appear madly in love.
All right, to catch people up, let's do a quick recap. Go.
So, essentially, Simon and Daphne are pretending to be in love.
They're basically the Regency era's J.Lo and A-Rod.
Yeah. Dating was a lot harder back then.
Take a girl out, have a great time, get back to her place,
and then your car takes a dump on her porch, not sexy.
Meanwhile, Daphne's older brother Anthony is hooking up with an opera singer.
In modern times, it'd be like a prince hooking up with the fourth lead of Suits.
-[London] Yeah. -Oh, I just put that one together.
Daphne doesn't know that Simon has vowed to never father an heir.
Which is pretty much standard for every dude in their 20s, trust me.
Anthony challenges Simon to a duel.
Hasn't been a duel this heated since Nicki Minaj and Azealia Banks.
-[London] Look at you! -I know all the rappers, all the beefs.
[London] Oh, look.
Simon and Daphne get married and start having a ton of sex.
Before this, the closest we had to seeing people in corsets grind on each other
was if we went to a Prince concert.
[David] Guilty.
But every time they have sex the Duke pulls out,
meanwhile, every player in the NBA watched it and thought, "You can do that?"
[David laughs]
And finally, Lady Whistledown is revealed to be Penelope Featherington.
I think we might know who started the Kanye and Jeffree Star rumors.
[Fortune] Right?
You're all caught up.
Tonight I'm gonna get to the bottom of some of the rumors around the cast
with a little game.
I'll talk to Phoebe and Jonathan about their experiences.
London will be asking fan theories yanked out of Reddit.
I'm gonna try. I haven't read the book.
I mainly watch the show for the intense lovemaking.
-This has been a very long lockdown. -[David] Yes.
Also, Nikki Glaser, she'll be popping in to review the show's hottest moments.
And Fortune is gonna have a chat with Nicola and Golda
about the show's over-the-top fashion.
Yeah, I'm clearly our show's fashion guru.
Oh, yeah.
Let's get started. Our first guests play the two most powerful women in London:
the Queen and Lady Whistledown.
Please welcome Golda Rosheuvel and Nicola Coughlan.
[whooping]
Hello.
-Whoa. -Hi.
-Okay, first of all, it's a monster show. -[Nicola] Thank you.
Yeah, it's huge.
Okay. Let's go through this.
Shonda Rhimes, we gotta start with that.
Is she there every day busting your balls, or no?
[laughs]
Shonda didn't, um… she didn't come to set.
We always wanted her to.
But I actually managed to meet her in LA in February 2020
and sort of saw her.
She came out of her office. She's like a vision, a goddess.
So I grabbed her, I felt that was appropriate.
I grabbed both her hands and didn't let them go.
And in my head I was like, "Let go of Shonda."
I physically couldn't let go of her. She didn't fire me, which was nice of her.
[laughing]
That's right.
I'm a huge fan.
I even drive a Shonda Accord around the lot here.
[London] Oh, stop.
Golda, I'll start with you. If there's a season two,
what are you hoping to see from the character?
Ooh. I would love for her and Eloise to join forces
to find out who Whistledown is.
-Oh, okay. -I think that would be a lot of fun.
Oh, I like that. Yeah, go Undercover Boss.
Yeah.
At season two for Nicola, we find out you're Irish.
I'm just gonna drop the accent. It's too much effort. I'm gonna quit it.
[laughs]
I mean, it seems like a lot of work, those dialects--
Really? Speaking proper English is a lot of work, David Spade?
-Really? -[laughs] It is.
These Americans. What are they like?
Yeah. Enunciation? Uh, weird.
I know. We are like the laziest of lazy over here, it's unbelievable.
So lazy.
So Nicola, the Penelope audition,
how did that go, how did you get that part?
I didn't expect to get it.
I thought, "It's a Shonda Rhimes Netflix show, it's too massive."
So I'll just not put much effort in.
I'll go do something and never hear about it.
So I was negative about the thing.
I got a call two weeks later offering me the role
and was totally shocked.
I felt like it was a clerical error.
I felt I was gonna show up, they're like, "You? We didn't mean you."
"We meant another Nicola. We meant Nicole Kidman, not you."
That didn't happen, which was lovely.
Nicole Kidman gets everything. It's ridiculous.
-She deserves it. She deserves it. -She is good.
I actually took a cue from you.
I put little effort into all auditions and performances. Um…
-So, uh… -[laughing]
Golda, you're Queen Charlotte, obviously,
the mack daddy.
What's the most memorable Queen Charlotte moment?
I think it has to be getting into the makeup trailer
and putting on those wigs every morning.
-Oh, my God, there's so much going on. -Yeah, this is a wig. Blah.
[laughing]
-It really… -Even that's a wig?
Yeah, don't tell.
Were the wigs heavy? Did they hurt you or were they all right?
No, they're very heavy. They're very heavy.
And about four o'clock in the afternoon your head starts steaming
and it's very hot under there and you can't wait to get that shit off.
[David] Yeah.
How about those little snuffy bumps?
Did you have to really do anything out of those?
-[laughs] -The snuff…? Oh, the snuffy bumps?
I thought you were talking about the dogs. I was like…
-I thought it was the dog too. -No, no.
I was like, "That's a new name for a Pomeranian."
The snuffy bumps.
-I was like, "Okay. Okay." -Yeah.
Um, now, that's glucose and something.
I don't know what the "something" is.
Let me tell you, I had to do that for a movie.
And I asked no questions. I was younger.
They just lined 'em up and said,
"You're a coke dealer. You'll do a few snuffy bumps."
I said, "Okay."
And I don't even say, "What's in it?"
Because I'm new and I don't want to cause trouble on the set.
And so I'm racking lines over and over into my brain.
I don't know what it is. And then, uh…
It was vita-- When I leave I go, "Hey, what was that?"
And they go…
"Oh, vitamin B-12. All good."
Some, you know, janked out prop guy, "All good, all good."
I go, "Oh," like he's some scientist.
I leave and they go, "You want a ride home?"
I go, "I think I'm gonna jog."
And then I go, "I'm gonna run and then I'm gonna dig a pool."
And I ran around like,
"Yah-da-da-da. I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
and I didn't go to bed for four days. Anyway.
-Snuffy bumps. -So it was cocaine?
-[David] Yeah, I don't know what it was. -Yeah, so it was.
All right, so on the Whistledown situation, when did they…?
Did you know going in or not find out until later or they didn't tell you?
Well, I found out in a really silly way.
I found out on an online fan forum. [chuckles]
Because I wanted to know about the books and characters.
I was reading the books, I couldn't get all information quick enough.
So I literally found out on, like, Reddit or something.
"Penelope is revealed as Whistledown."
I went, "What? I've read that wrong? Am I actually?"
I met Chris Van Dusen, our showrunner,
I was like, "Am I her? Am I Whistledown?"
He was like, "Yes," which was very fun.
It meant I got to sneak around the back of scenes, like, "What's everyone doing?"
I couldn't have a notebook and be writing, "Hmm? Keep going. Yeah."
But, yeah, it was fun.
Isn't it right, Nicola, that we never got the right endings in the scripts.
So none of the cast really knew?
If they hadn't read the books, none of the cast knew.
Yeah, I had to keep it secret when we filmed the ending.
So nobody, yeah, I don't know that you guys knew.
When I got episodes and was watching, I was like, "Is it gonna be me?"
Then the hood came down, "Phew. Okay. It is."
They could've tricked you, filmed your scene. "No!"
"It's Regé." No, okay, cool.
I knew it was you because go back, if you watch the earlier episodes,
you can see in every scene you're like this, "Huh?"
[laughing]
-Excusez-moi? -Yeah.
Can you say that again?
I love that nobody was gonna read the books.
[laughing]
They just counted on the actors.
I did read the books. I did.
"There's a book? Pass."
[David] Yeah.
They just know everyone's too lazy.
Just to let you know, I didn't have to read the books
because Queen Charlotte is not in the books.
[London] Really?
Question, because you play a Black queen
-on a show produced by the Black queen. -Yeah!
The show doesn't bring up ethnicity throughout the whole season.
What was your reaction to that?
I think that's right in this day and age that we're living in.
That's absolutely right to have a production like this, um…
just be a production like this,
that it's not mentioned, that we just celebrate the world
and the actors and people in it.
I think 2021 is definitely living up to, or 2020 when it came out,
is definitely living up to what I wish, uh,
to be experiencing in storytelling.
That's how it is on this set.
No one talks about the fact that I'm Black, so it's great.
It's like, we haven't even spoken about it. Who knew?
I do often mention that I'm a lesbian.
[all laughing]
It comes up in every bit.
Now, Golda, you have dogs on the show. Are they easy to work with?
There's always a rumor that they're not easy.
Uh, no, they're not easy to work with. They have minds of their own, believe me.
-Many times they were trod on. -Ooh.
No animals were hurt, by the way. No animals were harmed.
-I had a little dog too. -[David] Aw.
I had to do little tricks with it where it lifted its paws like this.
I got to feed it sausages after every take it did well.
None of the actors got fed sausages,
which, if we get season two, that's my first complaint.
[laughs]
I would like them to come pop a bit in my mouth every time.
Shonda, they need sausages. You heard her, you heard the people.
That's what they do to me to get me to shoot over six hours. Uh…
Well, the costumes were obviously killing it.
So who better to dig into the 19th century ball gowns
than a woman who wears flannel, Fortune?
Nicola, before we get started, I wanted to know,
in general, was it easy wearing all those dresses?
Did you have to wear heels, and all that stuff with it?
Yes.
I had a little bit of an issue in that I…
I got the job, didn't expect to,
'cause I thought it was gonna be such a massive show.
And then, like David, wanted to be a very nice actor
and not cause any trouble.
They said, "We'll put you in heels. You're tiny."
I went, "Yeah. Yes. Everything yes.
I'll do anything you want me to do."
Then the first day on set
the heels paired with the corset was a pretty bad combination
and I fell over three times on my first day.
-Oh. -Yeah.
[Nicola] But we landed in grass.
And the last time I was carrying a parasol,
which became a deadly weapon.
I fell forward speaking to Claudia Jessie who plays Eloise,
full on stabbed her in the hand with the parasol, she started bleeding.
-Oh, no! -Oh, my God!
[David laughs]
Oh, man, yeah, occasionally I play a woman. Um…
[laughing]
And I've had to wear heels and then I can't walk for a week,
so I get it.
But I'm gonna show you guys some photos,
and I'm gonna need you to tell me what's going on with these photos, okay?
So, like this one.
Look at that, Golda, come on now.
This is actually what London looked like after her special came out.
Stop talking.
[all laughing]
It was. It was a great time.
In her apartment.
Yeah, this is one of the lighter wigs, I would say.
-[Fortune] Yeah. -[London] Wow.
This is what you work out in on the show. Right?
Yeah.
Yeah, six o'clock the trainer comes in and I'm dressed like that.
You have that "Whoever smelt it, dealt it" face.
[David laughing] Whatever that is.
[laughing]
Now, how did you, like, how'd you pee in this thing?
I wore Spanx once and it was game over.
[laughing] "It was game over."
Peeing is quite difficult, yes.
There's, um…
a panasaw underneath there,
a pannier, I should say, underneath there.
There's a skirt and then another skirt
and then the jacket with the-- I'm corseted up twice.
[Fortune] Man.
It takes about half an hour to go to the toilet.
It looks like they have to carry you in and just put you somewhere.
Place you down and go,
"Please don't need to pee. Let's just get these shots."
Now, Nicola, I don't know…
I'm very impressed that you're able to sit like this.
I… it takes me days to get up.
Well, I could get down on the floor.
Someone has to retrieve me, I'm not saying I could get up.
I am curious, can I find this dress at Kohl's?
Yes, absolutely. It's two for one.
So, you'll get something else nice to go with it.
All right, next photo.
My dog looks just like that Pomeranian, by the way.
He was up for that part.
[Golda] Aw. Cutie.
It looks like you've got the cast of Hamilton under there.
[all laughing]
They're doing the whole stage play when you lift it up. "Hey-o!"
[London] Wow.
[Fortune] Did the throne come with the dress?
Were they attached?
They could've been if the pannier was still on, yes.
If someone had made me wear a dress like this back then
I would've beheaded everyone.
-[laughs] -[Fortune] So, I just--
I don't know how they did it. I don't know how those chicks did it.
You're amazing. Next photo.
Were you guys annoyed that you had to be in hair and makeup for probably hours
and the guy behind you just had to put on a top hat?
[laughing]
I know, pretty much. Yeah.
I mean, my hair and makeup took I think over two hours to do.
What was the dry-cleaning bill for this show?
Like 500 million?
Maybe. I don't know.
-Keeping Up With the Karens. -Yeah.
This picture says,
"We would all like a word with your manager."
[laughing]
All right, I have one last photo I'd like to show you.
That's me, you guys.
[laughs]
Yep, that was back when I was straight and I was promised to my brother.
[all laughing]
-Golda doesn't know what to make… -That's amazing.
The only thing that still fits are the gloves.
[laughing]
You truly were the diamond of the season, darling.
-[David] Look. -[Fortune] That's right.
Golda and Nicola, thank you so much, but you're not off the hook.
We're gonna talk to you more at the end of the show, stick around.
Enough about what they were wearing.
Let's talk about what they weren't wearing.
That's right.
Let's talk about Bridgerton's sexiest moments.
Here to do it is my friend Nikki Glaser.
I'm not sure what's more obnoxious in the middle of a party,
a dude having a three-way or a dude playing acoustic guitar.
A mediocre white dude having a threesome with two beautiful women.
This guy walked so Zach Braff could run.
[gentle piano music playing]
I love that she took the glove off.
That's smart, 'cause I hate when you have a wet glove.
And she can just use her hand? Ugh!
I need like four different electronics.
And I've got one up here, one here, one in the back,
I plug one with my heel to keep it steady. My arms are being used for the others.
I feel like a one-man band.
Bravo for just using your imagination.
I guess they didn't have porn back then. What's she gonna do? Like…
You know, lug up sculpture out of the garden up the stairs?
I give this one two thumbs up.
You know where the other one is.
[piano music stops]
You finished. How lovely.
I burn…
for you.
Ooh. The wedding night, oh, yeah. This is the first time.
I love that she loses her virginity on her wedding night in a castle
next to a fireplace with a duke.
And I lost mine after an open mic
in downtown Kansas City on a futon
with a guy who dropped out of Duke.
Do you want me to stop?
I want to show you more.
This is so long.
I feel like I'm watching a Joe Rogan podcast.
[breathing heavily]
If I learned anything from sex scenes in Bridgerton,
it is that these girls are getting so much foreplay
because the guys have to take time getting through the layers of clothes.
I'm gonna start wearing way more layers.
I'm gonna have pantaloons and petticoats and undergarments and…
I just probably need to start wearing underwear.
I feel…
wonderful.
Well, it's like the saying goes:
After a night with Simon, no hymen.
[thunder rumbling]
[rain falling]
[gasps]
[both laugh]
[romantic music playing]
Oh, this is the phase where they're starting to try new stuff,
like pneumonia, apparently.
[laughing]
Sex in the rain is good, 'cause the wet spot,
it's everywhere.
So I'm gonna try it.
All I have to do is find a, like, concrete gazebo
and…
a duke.
No.
I love Bridgerton.
It's just horny, historical drama.
But I always love period sex.
[chuckles] I knew Nikki would love that show.
Uh, all right, next up, we're talking to maybe
the only platonic couple on the show,
Anthony and Daphne Bridgerton, take a look.
-What is your name? -[man] Basset.
Basset!
-Bridgerton! -Old friend.
I heard news of your father.
You're no longer Basset. Hastings.
The Duke of Hastings now known forevermore.
The Duke of Hastings, is it?
-Right, Hastings, this is my sister. -Your sister?
Hastings and I know each other from our days at Oxford.
Days we shall not soon forget.
Yes, as I am well aware of the company you keep, brother,
I'm certain your days with His Grace were most civilized indeed.
We need to get together properly. I expect to see you at our club then.
Indeed. Evening, Bridgerton.
Miss Bridgerton.
Please welcome Phoebe Dynevor and Jonathan Bailey.
-Whoo! -Whoo-hoo.
-Hi. -Hi.
-They're both wearing black. -Yes.
Are you sitting next to each other or are you super far apart?
-No. We wish we were. -We're north and south.
Yeah.
I don't recognize you without your micro bangs.
Oh, I know. I miss them.
Were they clip-on or did you actually…
Just go a little… [whistles]
-Every morning, give it three sweeps? -No, it was a wig.
-It was a wig? A bang wig? -Yeah.
Oh, jeez. That's how much I know about show biz.
Phoebe, I'll start with you.
When you got this thing, what was the one thing you were most excited about?
Yeah, I mean, Regency is such an amazing period.
I think I was really excited about getting to play in the world of Regency
and high society.
And Shonda being involved,
'cause I'm such a huge fan of Shonda Rhimes.
She's amazing and I love her shows.
Yeah, the whole thing was just really overwhelmingly excited.
And, of course, getting to horse ride and dance
and all the skills to be a debutante
that I managed to pick up along the way.
Right, you know, it's shocking.
I don't do a lot of Regency movies or TV shows.
-It's not an era I go in on a lot. -No.
We're googling "Regency" right now.
We don't know anything.
Yeah, but I thought it might be the complicated dialogue.
-But that's why I would've done it. -Yeah.
Jonathan, are you near an aquarium? What's behind you?
What's going on? Are you at Sea World?
-I love it. -I've got the quarantine blues.
You play Anthony on the show, I'm telling you.
And you're the oldest Bridgerton brother.
We're introduced to you by some sort of tree humping scene where you're…
I mean, with a young lady, but you're by a tree.
I was watching the show going, "Oh, okay."
So this is how we start.
[laughing]
Interesting. Was that in the script or was that something ad libbed?
Of course it wasn't. [laughs]
On the first day, they just thought we'd, um,
you know, let the cameras roll and we could improvise into our characters.
We found a tree. It looked really lonely.
Are you a method actor?
Did you practice on other trees to get right for the character?
There's a trail like Hansel and Gretel of trees that have been bent.
[laughs]
-Trying different ways. -[David] Phoebe…
I'm not even gonna get into…
Jonathan, I don't know if I can say you're a cockblocker,
-but you're like of the century. -Terrible.
When I'm watching, I'm like, is this his full job?
We'll come back. I'll put a pin in that, let you think.
Um, Phoebe, this show has a lot of dancing.
We have a show called Dancing With the Stars, unfortunately.
-And… -Oh, yeah.
So that's kind of interesting that you had to learn…
I know learning dialogue is hard for me because I'm not a genius.
But that type of dialogue and the dances must've added to your day.
Was it very complicated?
It was. They were quite challenging.
I think dialogue and dancing is a skill as well.
You have to really rehearse it.
But it was really fun. I mean, we had so much fun.
Yeah, I think they tried to simplify it.
Sometimes the dances are just like this, "Anyway, so…"
[London] What are you doing?
So you can get some dialogue in. It's too complicated.
They're like, "Do the minuet." Everyone's like, "Oh, that one?"
Got too many spins.
I like that you guys are either waltzing or boning.
Yeah, it's Waltzing and Boning was the working title.
So, Jonathan, the dueling scenes, you have fight training.
You have to train for that, right?
It's another whole complicated situation.
Yes, the main training for that
was trying to work out how to contextualize that, understand it.
But we did some fight training. Regé was obviously incredibly adaptive.
I'm a bit of a lover, not a fighter, so I try to turn it to dance.
It's hard to fake fight in movies. You snap your head around.
And it's hard to, again, choreograph your dialogue and fighting,
you guys talk sometimes during a fight.
That's always complicated. I know, I've been in, uh, seven movies.
Please, listen to what I say. I have so much experience.
Oh, my God.
Episode six…
-Everyone knows old episode six. -Yeah.
-My favorite. -More like episode sex.
-[David] Yeah. Hide the kids. -Aw, yeah.
Now, you do stuff in castles, right?
Now, that must be a little different.
Is it real castles? Is it a set or is it a mixture?
We were filming it at one location for most of that.
And there's actually a funny story about that location
because we were filming on a Saturday one day,
and I was not wearing much.
I mean, it was summer, so me and Regé were both sort of in robes and flip flops,
and, you know, filming at this very beautiful palace.
And they do tours on the weekend.
So we happened to be there whilst they were doing a tour,
you know, tourists with full-blown cameras and ready to go.
And I had my wig on.
I sort of look like the girl from The Ring when it's down.
The Ring.
I just, after walking in to a toilet
with my robe and my hair down
and looking pasty white, as I am,
and I gave a family of tourists the shock of their life.
I think they thought they'd seen a ghost.
I didn't think the story'd go that way. I thought the family saw her having sex.
That's what I thought she was gonna say.
No, thankfully not. No, we were well protected.
[laughing]
It was a family of paparazzi.
I just love that the family immediately went to, "That's a ghost."
[laughing]
Could be anything. "That's a ghost."
[London] "It's a ghost."
Well, Jonathan, you had some Joe Dirt sideburns going on,
which, I don't know if my movie floated all the way over there to England--
It didn't.
London doesn't know what it is. We're gonna have a talk about that.
-No. -But…
-Look at us in this side by side. -[Fortune] Look at that.
[David] Phoebe. Look. Can you see it?
-I see it. -I love it.
It's a big deal. Make more excitement about it.
-They're like, "Great." -[Jonathan] I really enjoyed the…
This is before I was working out a lot. But--
Why is it like a before and after Viagra commercial? I don't understand.
He looks cooler than me. Whatever. All right…
How long did you have to keep them for? It became like a passion.
Well, I mean, it became my life, these little furry beasts.
-I… London, this is a real question. -Okay.
I grew… the hair's a wig. I wish I could do my hair like that.
But the pork chops I grew in and it took forever.
So it's, anyway, it's a long story. I'll save it for the online show.
-[laughing] -Anyway.
-Great story. -[David] Anyway.
Enough of these softball questions.
London, take over and grill them about what fans wanna know.
Most questions were submitted by fans through Netflix is a Joke Radio,
which Fortune presents, and on Twitter.
The rest of them are from my personal diary.
Okay. Let's get into it.
Question one, this is for Phoebe.
It's from Karen P. on Twitter, the original Karen.
She wants to know, "Who among you caused someone to break character the most."
Was it Jonathan with his sideburns?
It was 100% Jonathan. I'm so sorry, Jon, but it is.
I'm throwing you under the bus.
-[ laughs] Jonathan, what were you doing? -There was one scene.
There was two, actually.
There was Pony Club,
one scene, Pony Club, that went wrong where we were crying with laughter.
-What is Pony Club? -[Phoebe] Not crying.
Well, basically, crying with laughter…
There were so many scenes written in in the first drafts
of British frolicking around on their horses, galloping around.
The first scene they filmed with horses was me and Phoebe in episode one.
We'd been training for months and we thought we'd got it down.
We trained together. They took us out on hacks on a Sunday.
Soon as they said "action" the horses went backwards.
[laughing]
It was so weird what they were doing. Yeah.
Can't get help these days. Not even the horses.
-Unprofessional. -Horses are so tough to deal with.
In Joe Dirt we almost had a horse.
Oh, my God! Stop!
No one cares about Joe Dirt!
All right. Keep going.
The next question is for both of you. Melissa Pool… Joe Dirt.
Melissa wants to know, "When filming the dance scenes
did you shoot with the music that played in the final product
or if you didn't, what music did they use?"
I'm sure it was hard to get a bunch of white people dancing at the same time.
It's hard for you guys to stay on beat.
-Offensive. -Is that where all the budget went?
No, it is hard for you to have the same rhythm.
Was it hard to get--?
-That's why it's a diverse cast. -That's true.
We're like…
The Duke was holding the beat. How did you do the dance scenes?
We had mostly different music.
We were never sure where they were gonna go with the music.
We thought that maybe, 'cause we rehearsed mostly to modern music.
But we weren't sure if they were gonna dub it over
with classical old-school music.
So it was always a conversation…
We were really happy when they eventually played the fun remixes.
You were waltzing to "Who Let the Dogs Out" and it was fine.
[laughs]
-And they put-- -"Who Let the Dogs Out."
Yeah, exactly.
Wicked. Okay, cool. Next question.
This is from Carolyn Newell. And she says…
[clears throat]
"What happened to the prince's necklace
that Daphne left in the garden?"
"There's a theory that Cressida Cowper took it,
sold it on the black market, who knows, what really happened?" Do you know?
I don't know what happened.
And I never flagged this on the day.
I just… I don't know what I was thinking.
Maybe Cressida Cowper has it. I think she has it.
-She's got it. -Yeah. She's stolen it.
What do you think, Jonathan?
She never flagged it 'cause most of the days she's like this: "Props!"
What do I do with this?
[laughing]
-That's what I do. -[laughing]
-In Joe Dirt. -On Joe Dirt.
-No, I'm not bringing that up. -Jonathan… [laughs]
Jonathan, the fans of the book love the character Kate Sheffield.
Have you read the book? I heard that the cast did not read the book.
You know, I did, yeah, I smashed Book Two.
-[David] That's a no. -[London] You didn't read it.
[laughing]
You're like, "Can I get the pamphlet?"
[laughing]
Think of another verb that isn't "to read." It's what I do.
I'll explain the show. There's a girl called Kate Sheffield.
And apparently, she tries to win Anthony's heart in the next part.
-Played by London Hughes. -Pardon?
-Played by London Hughes. -Played by London Hughes! Right!
He said it! Shonda, if you're watching, he said it!
Played by London Hughes. You heard it here first.
Do you know what's gonna happen with Anthony? I'm worried about him.
He's getting with every girl on the turn. I don't want him to get Regency herpes.
So can you tell me, is he gonna slow down? What's going on?
Yeah, I mean, let's hope that he looks after himself and keeps clean. Um…
But yeah, I mean, he wasn't smiling that much. He's not a very happy man.
He sort of seems to be the embodiment of how society is really sort of messed up.
Like the patriarchal society for men and women, um…
And so it's good to show how bad men can be
and how controlling they can be
and with specifically Daphne as a cockblocker.
But, yeah, I'm really hopeful for his future.
It can only get better.
The final one. This is from my personal diary.
This is all me. Ready? We're gonna play a British favorite.
It's a great game, top tier, very classy.
It's called "Snog, Marry, Avoid," okay?
-Snog? -Snog.
Snog is British for "a kiss."
Oh, I thought it was more than kissing.
There's a rougher version of that in America, but go on.
[laughing]
This is the tame British version. We're classy, we're polite.
Snog, Marry, Avoid. Phoebe first.
Snog, Marry, Avoid, Nigel Berbrooke, Prince Friederich,
or the Duke's Black, hot boxer friend?
Don't know his name.
Oh. Oh, Will.
-[David] Oh, his boxer friend he fights? -Yeah.
I'd have to avoid Nigel, obviously.
-Avoid Nigel. -Creepy Nigel.
I'd have to marry the Prince.
-That's so shallow, isn't it? -[David] Yeah.
-So shallow. But then I'd be a princess. -You need give them the name on this back.
[laughing]
I'd obviously snog Will.
[London] Okay. His name's Will.
-Will. -Will.
I like between the waltzing and boning they were like,
"Let's have them box without shirts."
Just to keep everyone around.
Yeah, keep everybody calm.
Okay, Jonathan, Snog, Marry, Avoid.
Penelope, Lady Danbury,
and Marina Thompson?
I'd marry Marina and make sure she was all right.
-[London] Marry Marina. -Um…
Yeah, and I would, um…
I'd… Well, I'd snog Lady Danbury.
I'd avoid Penelope because she's gonna write some stuff about me.
She'll kiss and tell. She's Whistledown.
Cool. That's all the fan questions and my personal diary questions.
Thank you, guys, thank you so much.
We're gonna bring back Nicola and Golda and everybody.
We know Lady Whistledown loves to spread rumors
while staying anonymous.
I think she got that idea from my Instagram comments.
I'm gonna give you guys three pieces of gossip.
Only one is real. You tell me which one is real.
Do you understand the game?
-I call it Spadey Whistledown. -[London] Oh, God.
Here we go, first question. No, no, here we go.
[laughing]
Wait. What's the rules of the game?
-Tell Golda the game. -She doesn't understand.
Golda, truth is, I wouldn't expect too much from this bit.
-[laughing] -Just…
Just smile and nod and it'll be over soon.
Okay.
[laughing]
Can I make a request before we continue?
-Sure. -[London] Go on, babes.
Can we get Johnny kicked off the call because he said he'd avoid me?
[all] Ooh.
She sees everything!
-Didn't know she saw that. -Lady Whistledown!
You didn't know I was watching, Johnny Bailey.
Penelope right here, Johnny Bailey. Thanks very much. I will remember that.
Season two Lady Whistledown is gonna get real mean.
Oh, yeah. You're gonna get Regency herpes, oh yeah.
First question: "A, the Bridgertons brawl
with the characters on Peaky Blinders."
"B, people are already planning
Bridgerton New Years Eve parties for 2022."
"The unmarried Bridgerton sisters pretend they're gay
so Anthony doesn't set them up with someone horrible."
-Hmm. -Oh…
-I think B. -B.
Oh!
-Oh, really? Wow. -What a wild guess.
[laughing]
Thank you.
-What was the correct answer? -It was B.
It was B. You guys got it right!
Wow. It's gonna be a good New Years, 2022.
[David] That's right.
Next one. "Colin and Penelope will hook up in the future."
"B, the Queen falls for mysterious new stud who's into foot stuff."
[London laughs]
"Or C, Daphne becomes a bored housewife,
starts a competing gossip column called the Snuffington Post."
[laughs]
-I wanna say the foot stuff. -I like C.
C, okay.
It's A, just for Penelope.
Nicola says A.
-Feet! -Which? Oh, it is Colin and Penelope.
Ah, that's it.
Oh, Nicola gets it.
We have a prize coming.
No we don't. You'll get the Bridgerton home game in the mail.
[all laughing]
It's where you have to dress up in your costumes again.
And sit in quarantine.
Okay.
Thank you so much, cast, for being with us.
The cast of Bridgerton. Streaming now, click on it.
-Great show. -Thank you, guys.
-[David] Great to talk to you. -[clapping]
See you next time on The Netflix Afterparty.
We'll be with the cast of Bling Empire. Oh! Whoo.
More fun.
Yeah!
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