Bridgerton Cast Pretends To Be 20s While Collecting 30s And 40s Paychecks
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- â˘Season four of Bridgerton launched its second part on February 26, focusing on Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Baek.
- â˘Lead actors Luke Thompson (37) and Yerin Ha (28) play characters aged 30 and 24, showcasing typical Hollywood age gymnastics.
- â˘Key cast members including Jonathan Bailey and RegĂŠ-Jean Page are significantly older than their on-screen versions, despite portraying young adults.
The Bridgerton gang remains Netflix's favorite period piece where aging gracefully means ignoring basic math: Season four dropped Feb 26, starring 37-year-old Luke Thompson as 30-year-old Benedict and 28-year-old Yerin Ha as mid-20s Sophie. Meanwhile, Phoebe Dynevor who played Daphne turned 30 in 2025 but played a 24-year-old debutante last time we saw herâbecause why age in real time? The casting alphabet soup continues with Jonathan Bailey (37, April birthday) playing Anthony Bridgerton, aged 33 on-screen. Not to mention RegĂŠ-Jean Page, who left the series at 38 but is still the Duke of Hastings in all our hearts (and spoilers). Filming disrupted by COVID, but apparently not commonsense ageing.
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When your Bridgerton character is 24 but your actorâs closer to 40, itâs less Regency romance, more time-traveling midlife crisis.
Bridgerton actors age in dog years with all this pretending to be in their twenties. Guinness could sponsor these birthdays.
Netflixâs Bridgerton proves that in Hollywood, âyoung adultâ means âsomeone whose age is a polite fiction.â
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/27/2026 | Author: Gabbi Shaw
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