Life in the Bridgerton spotlight: Yerin Ha, Luke Thompson enjoy the starry shine

There’s a ‘Bridgerton blow up’ and then a ‘Bridgerton glow up’, one a nod to the enormous popularity of the lavish Regency-era romance and the other to the starry shine characters get as they step into the spotlight with season progressions. If actor Yerin Ha is enjoying the first, her co-star Luke Thompson is loving the second.
The two are the stars in the fourth season of the Netflix hit Bridgerton, each season focusing on the romantic life of one of the eight siblings in the aristocratic Bridgerton family. While Yerin plays Sophie Baek, the housemaid and the mysterious ‘Lady in Silver’, Luke is Benedict Bridgerton bewitched by her. ‘My first reaction when I got the role was lots of jumping and screaming and crying and hugging with my mom,’ Yerin told PTI in a Zoom interview. “To be part of a show that has been so successful, I think is a bit of a dream come true for an actor because that’s what you want is to be able to share a story seen by lots of people and loved by lots of people,” the 28-year-old added.
The Cinderella-inspired story, in which Benedict encounters a masked woman at his mother’s masquerade ball and falls for her without realising who she actually is, explores the class barrier the two must overcome to be together. The first four episodes of the show premiered in January while the final four episodes of the show arrived on Thursday.
In the previous seasons, Benedict has been shown as the wild child of the family. Did Luke receive any tips for his “glow up” moment in this season? Not really, the actor answered.
“The thing about Benedict is that he’s exactly the same. It’s not really a factory process of like, ‘Right, you’re up next, you get your glow up’. It’s very story-based as a show. I actually think it’s lovely also to watch a romantic hero like Benedict who, I was saying the other day, goes the opposite,” Luke said. (PTI)