THE ESCAPIST CRAFT SERIES
Based on a series of uber-popular historical romance novels by Julia Quinn, who has been described as "our contemporary Jane Austen," Bridgerton is the flashy first outing in Shonda Rhimes’ eye-popping $150 million development deal with Netflix. Bridgerton, as Page describes it, is “funnier, faster, wittier, and unashamedly sexier” than its predecessors in the genre, which might explain why its decadent dances are scored to string arrangements of needle drops by Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande. Like so much else about the series, Bridgerton’s dance scenes are impeccably crafted, visually spectacular, as swoonworthy as they come-but with a saucy, modern twist. Kelly McCreary Reflects on Grey's Surprise Finish
I think we learn the most about the characters on the dance floor.” Then suddenly, there's this place where you can't hide. They're not frivolous they’re the real heart and soul of the story, because everything else is a two-level dialogue where you say one thing and mean another. I think that's why dances are so central to these stories. “Once you start dancing, you get to be honest. “The dancing was a gift,” Page says, Zooming from his living room in late November. For performers like Page, scenes like this one unlock the true richness of the story. What remains are two spellbound dancers, emotionally naked as they came, illuminated for the first time in the radiant truth of their feelings for one another. Fans of the genre know the familiar beats by heart: in that single, remarkable dance, everything falls away-the glittering ballroom, the clamoring crowd, the peacocking revelers. With a global audience of millions expected to tune into Bridgerton, he couldn’t stand to get it wrong, this one incandescent scene that makes or breaks a period drama. That’s why he put in the grueling choreography rehearsals and stayed late to get the steps right, meeting up after hours with his costar, Phoebe Dynevor, to practice their elaborate dance routines, as their “unofficial soundtrack” of Beyoncé hits blared through the rehearsal room.
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When Regé-Jean Page started filming Netflix’s Bridgerton during the summer of 2019, he knew full well that, in every period drama worth its salt, sooner or later, it all comes down to one extraordinary dance.
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