In the season three finale, the camera lingers on Thompson’s Benedict as Julie Andrews’s narrator says, “It is time now to look toward the future, whatever it may bring.” For Thompson, this comes back to the words his character says to Eloise as they chat on the swings: “Love isn’t finite.” Says the actor, “Weirdly, though, what the show seems to be exploring with Benedict is that love is finite, actually. Our bandwidth is finite, and you have to [make] space for other things and be ready for something else to happen.”
What happens in Benedict’s Bridgerton book?
In Julia Quinn’s third novel, An Offer From a Gentleman, Benedict’s central romance takes a Cinderella-esque spin. While attending a masquerade ball, he falls in love at first sight with a masked woman named Sophie Beckett (now Baek in the series). She is the daughter of an earl who, after her father’s death, is forced to work as a maid by an evil stepmother—at one point laboring in the Bridgerton house.
Although Benedict ends up with Sophie on the page, Luke Thompson says his character’s sexual fluidity may continue to play a role in his story. “I think it’s an important facet of his character that certainly shouldn’t be ignored. But beyond that, I mean, we’ll see what the writers do,” he told VF.
Added Brownell, “Many of us in the writers’ room have long felt that Benedict is queer, as I think the audience has felt as well. I think he reads that way. And I think he’s someone this season who is figuring out what it means to make his own rules, because he doesn’t quite fit in society, but he doesn’t quite know where he belongs. So seeing him embrace his queerness is thematically also about him figuring out how to flout the rules and define himself the way he wants to. And it’s something that we’ll continue to explore going forward.”
Who are the new cast members of Bridgerton season four?
In addition to some returning favorites, Bridgerton has cast three new actors for its upcoming season. And if Sophie is a Cinderella-esque character, we can guess who might be emulating her stepmother and stepsisters.
