“It’s quintessential Bridgerton,” series creator Chris Van Dusen tells EW of the anticipated scene.
“It’s quintessentialBridgerton.
Who wouldn’t fall in love with a scene like that?”
Liam Daniel/Netflix
When we look back at filming series 2, that’s going to be the montage to remember."
“It was first time I’d really met Charithra [Chandran] and Simone,” she recalls.
“It was a really hot day, and we were all sweating and got very sun-burnt.
Simone Ashley, Jonathan Bailey, and Charithra Chandran in ‘Bridgerton’.Liam Daniel/Netflix
But we had a great time doing it.
Daphne’s meant to be the best player, but I was probably the worst player.
She was really bad at being crap at Pall Mall.”
There was one Bridgerton who stood above all the rest, however.
“The person who absolutely smashed it was Luke Thompson,” Bailey says.
You have to get the ball up into the air with a flat mallet.
Thompson wasn’t without his own Pall Mall woes, though.
“He broke one, which was hilarious.
Then he broke a second,” she laughs.
“We couldn’t believe it.
But he was so professional because we all burst out laughing the minute he snapped the second one.
But he just kept going.
Even though it was clearly half a mallet, all jagged wood, and the cameras are on.
The editing makes us look like we’re all fantastic at the game.
And we are not.”
