Warning! This text accommodates spoilers for Bridgerton season 4, half 1.
Benedict Bridgerton stays painfully unaware of the Woman in Silver’s actual id, however in accordance with Bridgerton season 4 lead Luke Thompson and showrunner Jess Brownell, there is a good cause why. Bridgerton season 4 is extra like a fairy story than any season earlier than, as Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha), an overworked housemaid and the illegitimate daughter of an Earl, crashes Violet Bridgerton’s masquerade ball.
There, her id safely hidden behind a silver masks, Sophie meets Benedict, and the remainder is historical past. Benedict searches for his elusive soulmate after she leaves the get together on the stroke of midnight, Cinderella-style. However, quite than discover his mysterious non-dancing girl, he as an alternative runs into the true Sophie at a celebration, saving her and her pal from a violent altercation with drunken “gents.”
Given the period of time they spend in shut quarters collectively at My Cottage — and later at his mom’s home, the place Sophie is given a job as a girl’s maid — it is inconceivable that Benedict hasn’t acknowledged who Sophie actually is. He is drawn her from reminiscence numerous occasions, in any case. However, as defined by Thompson, Benedict cannot reconcile the 2 girls as one.
“From a poetic viewpoint, it is like Benedict cannot tie up fantasy and actuality,” the actor instructed Leisure Weekly.
“They’re two separate issues and he needs them each individually in order that he can simply do each. The scary factor, I assume, is that falling in love is mixing each of these issues. It is the romance and it is also being with somebody for the lengthy haul in the true world. His M.O. is his weakest spot, actually,” he continued.
“I believe it says one thing about Benedict, that he’s… indirectly, it’s his flaw, proper? He is a bit blind.”
Even so, the actor admitted that it was troublesome to consider that Benedict nonetheless hadn’t caught on to Sophie’s actual id by the tip of Bridgerton season 4, half 1.
“It is form of surprising. You are like, ‘Certainly he can see!’ However then we’re all blind, have you learnt what I imply? All of us go and do issues for years, or do not assume to do issues for years, or aren’t conscious of issues for ages, after which all of a sudden the penny drops…. All of us have blind spots, and there is Benedict’s.”
In the meantime, showrunner Jess Brownell believes that Benedict’s obliviousness is a results of the Regency period’s strict and seemingly insurmountable class divide, even when, to the viewers, it feels “somewhat absurd that he would not acknowledge her.” Brownell defined, “In that day and age, there was simply no manner {that a} gentleman would anticipate a maid to have been at a ball.”
Sophie and the Woman in Silver being the identical individual is a logical impossibility for Benedict. The Woman in Silver is an acceptable, society-approved match, whereas turning into concerned with Sophie is harmful for each of them, although way more so for Sophie. Nonetheless, Benedict can not seem to let the concept of Sophie go, leading to his unromantic, if comprehensible, supply for Sophie to turn out to be his mistress in episode 4.
In accordance with Brownell, Benedict and Sophie’s steamy, fateful stairwell encounter and Benedict’s subsequent proposal come after a monumental epiphany for Benedict. Within the season’s fourth episode, Benedict realizes he is extra drawn to Sophie, permitting him to (momentarily) overlook his seek for the Woman in Silver.
“In episode 4, you could have that second the place Benedict thinks it is likely to be doable that Miss Hollis might be the Woman in Silver,” the showrunner shared. “She has some similarities. However earlier than he realizes that it is the truth is not her, you discover that Sophie walks within the room.”
“He is so drawn to Sophie that he realizes in that second that he truly would not care if Miss Hollis is the Woman in Silver,” Brownell defined.
How lengthy it’ll take Benedict to see the reality stays to be seen, particularly now that Sophie’s former “household” has moved in subsequent door. Sophie deserves greater than Benedict’s supply to turn out to be his mistress, however it’s arduous to say how these star-crossed lovers could make it work in such a class-driven society. The Ton may need one thing to say about their union in Bridgerton season 4, half 2.
Bridgerton season 4, half 2, premieres on Netflix February 26.
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December 22, 2020
- Community
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Netflix
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Tom Verica, Tricia Brock, Alex Pillai, Alrick Riley, Bille Woodruff, Cheryl Dunye, Sheree Folkson, Julie Anne Robinson
- Writers
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Abby McDonald, Sarah L. Thompson, Daniel Robinson, Oliver Goldstick, Leila Cohan-Miccio, Azia Squire, Sarah Dollard, Eli Wilson Pelton, Janet Lin
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Luke Thompson
Woman Violet Bridgerton
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Ruth Gemmell
Benedict Bridgerton
