SPOILER ALERT: The next reveals main plot factors for Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton.
Bridgerton creator Julia Quinn has commented on the response to that twist involving Hannah Dodd‘s Francesca on the finish of Season 3 of the Netflix sequence.
Season 3, which largely targeted on the friends-to-lovers story between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) from Quinn’s Romancing Mister Bridgerton, additionally intertwined among the plot of Francesca Bridgerton’s (Hannah Dodd) love story, impressed by the e book When He Was Depraved. Whereas followers of the books anticipated the introduction of 1 Michael Stirling, cousin of Francesca’s new husband John Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin (Victor Alli), they have been met as a substitute with a gender-swapped character — Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza). Francesca was notably shocked when she first noticed Michaela, and showrunner Jess Brownell informed Deadline of her plans to gender bend Francesca’s story, which felt pure.
“Many Bridgerton followers have expressed their shock, and for some, disappointment within the twist on the finish of Bridgerton Season 3 – that Michael Stirling, with whom Francesca finally falls in love in When He Was Depraved, would as a substitute be Michaela,” Quinn wrote in a message posted to Instagram. “When Jess Brownell first approached me with the thought of turning Michael into Michaela for the present, I wanted extra data earlier than conferring my settlement.”
Quinn went on to say her belief in Shondaland’s imaginative and prescient for Bridgerton in addition to her need that the spirit of the books stay within the tv adaptation, particularly when it got here to Francesca’s love for John.
“I truly needed to combat to have the primary 4 chapters, which set up that love, included,” she continued. “My writer was fearful that writing about Fran’s love for John would take away from Michael’s function because the eventual romance novel hero.”
Bridgerton. (L to R) Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton, Victor Alli as John Stirling in episode 303 of Bridgerton. Cr. Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2024
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In When He Was Depraved, John dies of a mind aneurysm shortly into his marriage to Francesca, and Michael, who has coveted her since she married John, finally steps in as Earl of Kilmartin and pursues Francesca. Quinn wrote of her confidence that Francesca’s Bridgerton season can be “probably the most emotional and heart-wrenching” story of the present” with doubtlessly “much more of a punch, since John is getting much more time on the display screen than he ever did on the web page.”
“Thanks to readers and followers in your suggestions. I’m grateful in your understanding and touched by your deep dedication to the characters of the Bridgerton world,” Quinn concluded. “I ask that you simply grant me and the Shondaland workforce some religion as we transfer ahead. I believe we’re going to find yourself with two tales, one on web page and one on display screen, and they’re going to each be stunning and transferring.”
