

Corey and India just immediately jumped off and hit it off right away. But once the actors start reading it, there wasn’t anything specific that we wanted ahead of time. You get to see a little bit of her feistiness and that avoidance. I think it was so wonderfully nuanced with the obstacles that they both face - her not knowing that it’s him, initially. The first scene that we saw that Shonda wrote was the wall scene, which is their first interaction.

It starts with the story, with the script and the setup of how these two meet. TVLINE | Do you remember any conversations with Shonda about what she looks for when she’s trying to find the chemistry with these couples? And with Shonda’s script, it was so beautifully written and so beautifully orchestrated with how they came together, it was really up to us to find the right actors to be able to pull this off. But I think we were very confident in the origin story of Queen Charlotte. Were you intimidated at all by that?Īs we approached Queen Charlotte, we definitely felt that there was going to be extra eyeballs and perhaps some trepidation in accepting yet another couple. TVLINE | The show has a seemingly impossible task, which was to deliver a couple that could live up to the high expectations of Bridgerton’s Simon and Daphne, and Kate and Anthony. In our full interview below, the director shares his insight on George and Charlotte’s memorable ending scene, potential Queen Charlotte spinoffs and more. Verica is a Shondaland staple, having helmed episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, spinoffs Private Practice and Station 19, Scandal, For the People and Inventing Anna, as well as Seasons 1 and 2 of Bridgerton. (Note: Hugh Sachs, who plays the elder Brimsey, told Vulture of a cut scene that was never filmed in which an older Reynolds and Brimsley see each other in passing.) So a lot of that is kind of the unknown right now. In playing those scenes, particularly when was dancing alone, we had discussions about that, and we tried a couple different ways, our own theories as to what happened with their relationship or what happened with Brimsley. We don’t know specifically what happened, but there are a couple different options. “But it certainly has struck a nerve with a lot of viewers, as it with me when I was filming this and our discussions with the actors as to where it goes.


“We don’t know where that’s going to go,” Tom Verica, who directed the entire season, tells TVLine of the pair’s uncertain romance.
