Rege Jean Page quotes

I think people were grateful for the intensity of the romantic aspects of Bridgerton;' I'm not sure how grateful I was to watch it for myself.

It's cool to step on stage with your heroes.

It's a great way to spend your time as a human: learning about other humans and then sharing that knowledge.

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.

One day I can be a spaceman, the next day I can be president, the day after that I can travel 200 years into the past. It's this really freeing profession.

I think the idea we had with Bridgerton' was very much in the early conversations, to do something fresh and exciting and entirely more fun, fast, funny and glamorous than has been done before in the period genre.

Also I wanted to be an explorer when I was a kid. That was my first idea of what would be a really great thing to do in the world: to discover unknown things and pick around in them and see what you could bring back home to go, 'Look! The world is bigger than you thought it was.'

Simon is clearly in the tradition of romantic archetypes, your Darcys, your Heathcliffes.

We've all known how to smile since the beginning of time. We've all gotten married since the beginning of time. We've all had romance, glamour, and splendor. Representing that is incredibly important, because period drama for people who aren't white shouldn't mean only spotlighting trauma.

I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.

It's a great way to spend your time as a human: learning about other humans and then sharing that knowledge.

Home is a relative concept. Home is very much wherever it is that your people are and where you fit in.

I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.

This constant need for dominance and strength, having walls up, this kind of silent broker cowboy who needs to have something that can be redeemed before he is actually worthy of love, there is a missing piece to that strength.

We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.

I was up at 5 A. M. every day, going to the gym, meeting my trainer. He was horrible to me for an hour and a half every morning before the day started. I got my strength up just from surviving him.

I have a theory that I'm always hungry when I do interviews, as I always talk about food.

Zimbabwe was still a relatively young country when I was living there and its post-apartheid society was only newly formed. Being a mixed-race child in that environment means that you have to think about crafting your own identity and you question why you belong in that world.

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.

And that's where I think vulnerability comes in - the fact that we're figuring out that there is strength in actually being vulnerable to one another, there is strength to letting go of grief, or at least processing grief more helpfully than we've necessary seen, particularly in these corseted upper class dramas before.

'Bridgerton' is a lot like the period dramas that you know and love, but nothing like it's forerunner. It's faster, funny, sexier, and more glamorous.

We're still trying to figure out how to let men be vulnerable, to realize there's strength in vulnerability, and that it's how you fill out the circle of masculinity.

The idea of romantic heroes - When you say the word hero,' it implies it's someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton' about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?

The reason you think history is white is because you've been lied to.