Bridgerton season 4 spoilers ahead.
Is the Bridgerton stairwell scene the new Heated Rivalry cottage? It certainly seems that way, and rightfully so, given the heat Benedict (Luke Thompson) and Sophie (Yerin Ha) brought to our screens in the Bridgerton season 4, part 1 finale.
Forget the fact that our boy Benedict doesn’t realize Sophie is the masked woman he’s been pining after; by the end of episode four, the masked woman is an afterthought. All he cares about is being with Sophie Baek, the maid who works for his mother. As the two have a somewhat forbidden (or frowned upon) hookup in the stairwell of Bridgerton House on Sophie’s night off, he says, “I stay away from you because you consume me. But the reality of you is better than any fantasy.”
It’s all Sophie has yearned to hear—and feel. (I mean, does it get any better than Olivia Rodrigo’s “Bad Idea, Right” playing as he seduces her?) However, she stops dead in her tracks when Benedict asks her to be his mistress. She runs down the stairs and out of the house, leaving Benedict dumbfounded, and Sophie completely heartbroken.
As all of this is unfolding, John’s cousin, Michaela, arrives back in town, which sends Francesca spiraling. But that’s not all: Lady Araminta Gun and her two daughters, Rosamund and Posy Li, have moved next door to Bridgerton House, which will no doubt cause even more agony for Sophie.
Has there ever been this much action in four episodes of Bridgerton? In what is amounting to the best season yet, showrunner and executive producer Jess Brownell joined us on Zoom to talk about what’s next for everyone in the Ton, any clues about season 5’s lead, and what wasn’t scripted in that Bridgerton stairwell scene.
Glamour: You’ve said this was the most easily adaptable book to screen, so was there anything that didn’t make it in?
Jess Brownell: I think the majority of the major set pieces from An Offer From a Gentleman make their way into this season. Those who are familiar with the book will know that Benedict asking Sophie to be his mistress starts a lot earlier and gets repeated multiple times. And we felt for our sake that it was important to have him just ask once and make a big moment of it rather than have him continuing to badger her about it. That’s because our version of Benedict is… Luke Thompson brings a lot of sensitivity to the role and it felt like he would be a little more in tune with the idea that his ask would be difficult for Sophie.
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