![]() ![]() ![]() “It was like, ‘Oh, this at least is accessible for me,’” Thomas says. She’s a budding confidant for the young queen but not yet the all-knowing social glue of the ton. “You know, this very powerful, magical creature that almost floats above the ground.”īut Queen Charlotte, which is set decades before Bridgerton, finds Lady Danbury in a very different place. “I got very scared and felt the pressure of trying to embody this woman who is unlike anyone I have ever met in my life,” Thomas, whose pronouns are she/they, tells Bustle. Thomas, 28, obviously remedied that after being cast - and quickly realized she’d signed up to portray one of Bridgerton’s most iconic characters: Lady Danbury, a senior member of London’s high society who uses her influence to guide some of the show’s buzziest love matches. ![]() But one thing the American-born actor hadn’t done was watch Bridgerton. The well-traveled child of two diplomats had earned a Master of Public Health from Yale and even took the TEDx stage to talk about foreign aid before enrolling at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Before landing the role of young Lady Agatha Danbury in Netflix’s Bridgerton prequel, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Arséma Thomas had already cultivated quite the resume. ![]()
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