the bee stings kate's breast and then
anthony
sucks the venom out of her hi i'm simone
ashley and today i'm breaking down
bridgeton with l
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the first scene that we're going to
watch is episode one and it's the horse
riding scene where kate and anthony
first meet
what i love about this scene is that it
grows from a place of loneliness from
both of these characters
anthony catches kate when she's in her
hidden element she's away from her
family they've just come to london
literally the night before i think she
knows that she probably won't be able to
enjoy much time on her own so she finds
a sense of freedom and
um escapism in just riding off at dawn
on her horse on her own enjoying your
victory lap
i think we see a parallel in that with
anthony his form of escapism is
indulging in brothels and drinking
followed by a lonely ride at dawn so i
think their stars are really so aligned
at this moment and i think it's such a
beautiful thing that we brought to
screen that that right time right place
moment for these two characters where
they've met each other perhaps we
pretend this encounter never took place
you allow me to go my way and you go
yours trisha brock directed these
episodes she was always reminding me of
the task at hand and for kate she can't
be seen when she's riding alone
nothing can get in the way of her plan
um for what she wants to do with her
sister
and
i had to keep that in mind throughout
the whole scene but even the most
headstrong kate um can't help but be
charmed by anthony you worry about being
seen i worry about meeting strange men
at parks at thorne who failed to leave
me alone with all of their questions
your secret is safe with me i should not
tell herself how grateful i am kate is
quite used to people giving up on her
formidable nature but anthony challenges
her he plays with her and there's a lot
of banter in this scene
is that what that was
a race or was it not
there's one looking industrial
competition for a race you could say
that if we decided on a finish line
together but alas we made no such
agreement ah i see you are not one for
losing
i shall have you
and what i love about this scene is it
starts from this lonely dark place at
dawn to the sun rising and then these
two people really giddy he makes her
smile and she rides off
we've not yet been introduced i'm afraid
that is not possible not when i have a
victory lap to enjoy he's stuck in her
head it's a really twinkly moment i
remember um being on my horse his name
was mufasa and with them the horse
riding stunt team around me
and one skill that i learned was um to
just constantly talk to the horse talk
to the people around me
um because horses are so intelligent and
when it's silent on set they they're
almost preempting the word action and
they're ready to go so i would just
always be muttering or talking to him or
talking to whoever was around me
um
and i thought that was really fun and
really sweet and johnny would be
cantering around
in circles on his horse jack and we
actually did this scene in our chemistry
reads um so
it will always be one of my favorites
coming up next it's scene two um in
episode three
and it's the beasting scene and we see
this at the end of the episode i did not
mean to disappoint her last night
and i did not declare myself
and i would like to thank you for you
should not be disappointed for long i'm
not sure i still intend to propose
between these two characters they've
been constantly trying to suppress this
feeling that sparked since the moment
that they met and
i think it's so interesting that it
takes something as small as a bee
to stop them in their tracks to bring
this truth to the surface the only
feeling
you are in fact capable of engendering
my lord is that of discontent do not
tell them
no no do not do this
tom verrica directed this scene and this
episode
and i i had a phone call with him just
chatting about the character of kate and
how she's quite intuitive with animals
and
um she plays the role as the eldest
sister and the protector of her family
um so i think she's quite skilled at
remaining calm in high stake
aggressive situations or high adrenaline
situations you heard what anthony's
obviously reliving his past trauma and
he's really overwhelmed he's having a
bit of a panic attack
but she she sees immediately that
he's incredibly vulnerable at this
moment
i am unharmed and i remember saying to
tom like it's very similar to how she
behaves with her sister and her family
and the animals that she's around and i
think at that moment
it's out they haven't articulated in
words how they feel about each other but
all the looks and she's broken the touch
barrier between them which was a huge
thing back then in that century for a
woman to touch a man and she places his
hand on her heart as a way to
kind of bring him to the present and
calm him down and once you go there
there's there's not really any going
back
what i love about brigitte it's what
happens in the private moments they're
constantly surrounded by people watching
and they've always got to hold this
decorum but they have this beautiful
private moment together and that's so
human and then immediately it's back to
did anyone see
is anyone going to say anything have we
been caught
from the books the scene plays out quite
differently but whenever we were
rehearsing it um we would kind of
pretend that we were going there in the
books and the bee stings kate's breast
and then anthony
sucks the venom out of her it was a way
to just make it like hearted on the day
maybe it was like you had to be there
moment be there that's a good plan
finally the last scene that we're gonna
watch is the final dance between kate
and anthony
are you going to ask me to dance i
remember
listening to nothing breaks like a heart
by miley cyrus and i put it to chris van
dusen and i said i really want this to
be in the show and he took inspiration
from that and then made the song for
this dance wrecking ball by miley cyrus
jack murphy our amazing choreographer
really applied that to the dance i
remember johnny would say when kate and
anthony dance they move like a unit
and you can really see that in the
movements of the stance that they swing
like a pendulum like a wrecking ball i
really wanted to honour that and i
remember feeling a bit nervous on the
day much like anthony's line in the
scene where he says just keep looking at
me i kind of listened to that and i just
made it all about anthony to kate she
thinks that this is the last time she'll
ever see this man she really just wants
to live in this moment for the rest of
her life there's a line actually in
episode six before kate and anthony
kissed for the first time where she says
um i want to suspend time
to delay the inevitable
to for me a moment
not to think of what comes next and i'd
like to think if kate did leave for
india there might be a future where
anthony's sitting in the library in
aubrey hall and it's thunderstorming
outside and he thinks of kate and she's
in india
horse riding um remembering this man
that she met in london goodbye my lord
so
jack murphy added that really beautiful
move where they bring their hands down
and she's looking at him and he's
looking at her and they're just taking
each other in for what seems to be like
the last time
i've chosen these three scenes
specifically um because i feel they
encapsulate
kate and anthony's
journey together their love story and
also encapsulates the partnership um
that it was between myself and jonathan
bailey who plays anthony
so season three
um there's only so much that i know um
about season three we we haven't
received the scripts yet i think what's
so amazing about this show um is the the
family dynamic that we've all
um watched from season one to two it
really mirrors how i felt filming last
year um i wasn't a newbie for long um
before i knew it i was just a part of it
all and i felt very
welcomed and guided and seen and heard
and i i think i'd like that for kate um
she's quite used to in season two
running away a lot and being stubborn
and isolating herself and i'd like to
think she kind of gets over herself at
this point and um
yeah i want her to be there for the
family just as much as they were for her
and i think it's a bit scary and you
feel vulnerable to be depended on and to
depend on others um
but that's one thing about anthony that
he never gave up on with kate um his
sense of family and his sense of
community and
really strong arming her into it i'm
just as curious as the fans as to what's
going to happen so
stay tuned thanks so much for watching
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