Francesca Bridgerton will no longer have the same face in season 3 of the hit Netflix series! A casting change had to be made due to a conflict of schedule with the initial interpreter.
Goodbye Ruby Stokes! The actress who lent her features to Francesca Bridgerton in the Netflix series will not return in season 3. But, as revealed Deadlinethe character will not disappear for all that, it will simply have a new interpreter: Hannah Dodd, recently on the poster of another series of the platform, Anatomy of a scandal, in which she played the young version of the character of Sienna Miller.
Appeared in two episodes of the first season of the show which revealed Regé-Jean Page, Ruby Stokes then returned for the first three episodes of the following season before disappearing. The reason ? The actress left to film another Netflix series, Lockwood & Co, which will be released later this year.
But there is no question for the team of The Bridgerton Chronicle to do without the sixth child of Lord Edmund and Lady Violet for too long, especially since, if the series continues to follow the novels of Julia Quinn, the reserved Francesca will be the heroine. of the sixth season. Failing to find another solution, it was therefore chosen to recast the character.
bestimage Hannah Dodd, the new Francesca.
“I love Francesca, but we lost her in the middle of season 2. After exhausting all other options, she unfortunately had to go out for reasons beyond our control.”, had indeed declared the creator of the show Chris Van Dusen to TV Line last March. And so it is Hannah Dodd, also expected soon in Enola Holmes 2, who has been chosen to succeed Ruby Stokes.
To see it in action, see you next year on Netflix!