Lady Whistledown’s identity is quite protected.
Are we not the most clever girls in the ton?
If anyone can find her, it is us, I think.
I’m playing Penelope Featherington.
She is the youngest of the Featherington brood.
She’s got two older sisters, Philippa and Prudence,
who are pretty terrible to her,
her mum, Portia, and Lord Featherington.
Don’t even know my dad’s first name.
"Dad," played by Ben Miller.
Might I go play with Eloise?
-A lady does not play, Penelope. -Forgive me, Mama.
Might I go promenade for suitors with Eloise?
Very well, then.
Hello. Welcome to my trailer. How are you doing?
I’m gonna bring you around the Bridgerton set
here on a very rainy, wet day in England,
but I’m excited to show you around.
I’m off for a nap now, so I’ll see you in a while.
So we filmed at a lot of locations.
We filmed a lot in Bath.
You’re picked up at 4:00 a.m. you’re driven in the dark,
you wake up, you’re at a mansion. You’re like,
“This is amazing.” Then you leave.
“Where were you today?” You’re like, “I don’t know.”
“It was very nice.”
Now it is time to head to hair and makeup,
which, you know, I’ll try not to get lost on my way to
as I have done several times this week.
I think it’s right here. In fact, it is.
Come on.
So the whole process takes about two hours
from when you sit in the chair.
The first part’s getting the hair all clipped up
and sprayed down.
Then the very gorgeous wig cap goes on.
And then we start with makeup.
The Regency era was more about the hair that it was about the face.
You’re gonna see some serious hairstyles on this show.
My sisters and I, we’re all gingers, all the Featheringtons,
as is Mummy Featherington.
The Featherington logo, family motif, is a butterfly.
You’ll see lots of butterflies throughout the series
if you’re eagle-eyed.
Some of my favorite hair pieces. They’re actually brooches.
All right. Now we’re done.
-Let’s go. Thank you, Lou! -Thank you!
So this is the Featherington trailer trio.
So you’ve got Philippa here.
Prudence here.
And Lady Penny.
So the style of the show is so over-the-top, so gorgeous.
All of these costumes, they made thousands of individual pieces.
Nothing’s rented on this show, which is unusual.
Each one of these flowers that I have on this dress is handmade.
It’s embellished. All the jewelry is handmade put together.
So every look is so thought of. It’s incredible.
I think a lot of period dramas are gray and dull,
but this is full of color and life and…
It’s not your granny’s period drama.
It’s something really different and exciting.
It’s so cool to be involved in it.
So here we are.
It’s a beautiful, beautiful building.
There’s an oil painting of Aidan Turner inside,
so I want my own painting by the time I leave.
They bring you in.
You have to dance with the dancers, and I was like, “Jesus.”
I mean, doing that-- I’m saying I did this in a full…
Can you hear that? I did that in a full corset.
I don’t know if there’s some kind of corsetry acting award,
but I would like one for doing a full jig in this.
It wasn’t easy.
Action.
We’re shooting the ingenue ball today,
so when Daphne’s acting the perfect ingenue,
and my sisters and I are in our ridiculous colors again.
So there’s some dance sequences to shoot now.
I’m just a spectator today. No dancing for me.
It’s quite an easy afternoon. I just get to watch and… Yeah.
That’s a cut. Good.
Thank you so much for joining me today
on the Bridgerton set. That is a wrap from us.
Time for the corsets and wigs to come off,
and the trackies to come back on.
I hope you had fun, and I hope you enjoy the series.