It’s then, throughout this ultimate half, that we hear Julie Andrews voice for the final time this season when she says, “And with the retirement of my literary persona, I want to formally introduce myself: Earlier wallflower, present columnist, observer, welder of quill, no person distinctive, and but I’ve my moments.”
Within the subsequent line, which begins with, “and hopefully pricey reader…,” Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Bridgerton takes over. She finishes with this: “You’ll keep on to get pleasure from them with me as we start this subsequent a part of our journey. Yours really, Penelope Bridgerton.”
By all accounts, this would appear to arrange properly (though positively bittersweet) the handing of the torch from Andrews to Coughlan. However not so quick, govt producer and showrunner Jess Brownell tells Glamour. Actually, it might not be the tip of the highway for a number of different actors as properly, together with Jonathan Bailey (Antony Bridgerton) and Simone Ashley (Kate Sharma Bridgerton), whose characters moved to India in episode 307 as they ready to welcome to their first youngster.
Beneath, Brownell reveals why she desires to maintain Dame Julie Andrews within the fold for the remainder of the sequence and what the longer term holds for Bailey and Ashley in addition to Coughlan and Luke Newton.
Glamour: On the finish of the episode, Julie Andrews’ voice as Girl Whistledown transitions into Nicola Coughlan’s voice because the narrator. What does this imply for Dame Andrews in season 4? Is that this the tip of her run as our narrator?
Jess Brownell: So thematically, that’s completely the fitting assumption as a result of it makes a lot sense now that Penelope is proudly owning her personal voice to actually have her voice Girl Whistledown. Nonetheless, Julie Andrews is simply such part of the sensation of the present. So, we’re enjoying round in season 4 with ways in which we are able to clarify why it is nonetheless Julie Andrews. I feel it is simply—it is in Penelope’s head the way in which she formally reads it to herself as she writes.
