From the moment Simon, the Duke of Hastings, strides on screen inBridgerton,he owns the room.
I’m a huge fan of romance as a concept.
Romance is a wonderful thing and we need more of it in the world, he tells EW.
Regé-Jean Page in ‘Bridgerton’.LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX
Most things at their core are love stories anyway, whether they realize it or not.
It is so incredibly page-turning and digestible and delicious, he quips.
I burned through it, and at moments, it burned through me.
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All that comes to [play in] the costume explicitly.
So that really excites me on a deeply geeky level.
But Page sayshe found a lot more similarities than one might expectat first glance.
That’s a huge part of why I wanted to turn up in the show, he notes.
There is something of a deficit to be redressed there.
If you [meet] one, youd have to ask him what thats like, he humbly replies.
There’s physical attraction because of what people see as desirable at any particular given time.
What is truly beautiful about someone?
What is that jewel at the heart of them?
How do you dig that out?
Spoken like a true romantic hero.
Bridgertonis now available onNetflix.
