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Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson, Yerin Ha on romance, sexuality and their online chemistry read

The leads of Bridgerton season four reveal what they remember from their chemistry read, Benedict’s sexuality and the Cinderella-esque plot

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Yerin Ha (left) and Luke Thompson promoting Netflix’s Bridgerton season four in Paris. The duo talk about their characters, advice given to them by their co-stars and more. Photo: Netflix
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This article contains mild spoilers for part one of season four of Bridgerton.

Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha are lounging on a blue velvet couch in a swanky green room inside Netflix’s offices in New York, bracing for the whirlwind that inevitably envelops every pair of actors who become the central couple in a season of the popular romance drama Bridgerton. And they are still settling into the idea of being romantic leads.

“It doesn’t feel real,” Ha says fresh into their first press day in early December. “Because for a very long time, I didn’t think that it was possible for me – maybe I should have dreamed bigger. To keep saying that I’m the lead of a season feels really bizarre.”

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“But maybe that’s a way of coping with it,” Thompson says. “I remember in season one, I just finished a Zoom call, and I just sat in my living room, and it was the first time I really touched into the idea that millions of people are watching this thing. Millions of people. And I never did it again.”

“You just did it for me now,” Ha says with a smidgen of dread that launches the pair into laughter. “That’s not really helping.”

Thompson, though, is not feeling the pressure of keeping the romance alive and extremely meme-able as they take up the mantle of the Regency-era fairy tale.

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