The openly gay actor Golda Rosheuvel, who plays Queen Charlotte on Bridgerton, says that earlier in her career a director warned her to stay in the closet.
Rosheuvel is set to star in a Bridgerton prequel series about Queen Charlotte’s youth and courtship.
The advice “blew my mind”, Rosheuvel recalls on the April 27 episode of Just for Variety, a podcast from US magazine Variety.
The mere fact that you’re in Bridgerton as a Black, biracial, cis-gender, lesbian playing the first Black queen of England.