20 Bridgerton Behind-The-Scenes Facts For The Gossip Girlies

Because of the amount of riding on the show, all the stars had a horse assigned to them for Season 1. According to Netflix, the actors became so attached to their horses that horse master Steve Dent had to make sure everyone got their same steeds for Season 2. Also, all the carriage horses in Season 2 were the same ones who were in Season 1. (With 250 carriages, that’s no small feat.)

The show’s powers-that-be did not take the 1810s lightly. As titled families, the characters would have received formal training in several areas that are no longer part of the modern world. To get into the right mindset, the actors went to boot camp six weeks before filming Season 1. According to the Welwyn Hatfield Times, the cast was trained in “etiquette, horse riding, dancing, voice lessons, pistol training, and boxing,” among other things. In an interview with Elite Daily, Season 2 star Charithra Chandran confirmed she, too, went through similar training.

Author Julia Quinn based the famous Pall Mall scene in the book The Viscount Who Loved Me on her childhood croquet games with her sister.

A team of over 230 people built every costume from scratch, meaning a collective wardrobe that features somewhere in the range of 7,800 outfits. According to IndieWire, everything was handmade.

Look carefully, and you’ll notice the show’s Season 1 heroine is decidedly not an outfit repeater. The inaugural leading lady had over 100 dresses in the first season alone.

Not only does Her Royal Highness Queen Charlotte wear a different gown in every scene, but each one also comes with a matching wig.

Unlike Daphne, Kate rewore a few dresses in Season 2, but the sheer amount of costumes didn’t drop off after Season 1. According to Netflix, each episode has, on average, about 90 costumes, when everyone, including extras, is counted up.

Unlike Lukes Thompson and Newton, who wore stick-on sideburns for their roles as Benedict and Colin, Jonathan Bailey decided to go method-acting and grow his own muttonchops for Season 1. He regretted it by the end, since the look was so hard to maintain.

Anthony’s costumes were darker colored at the start of Season 2, and Kate Sharma’s dresses were similarly heavier, overly neat, and tight. But throughout the season, the two slowly lightened up visually as they lightened up mentally. Anthony starts wearing clothes that look like what Edmund wore, while Kate’s dresses and hair become looser.

If you think you recognize some of the backgrounds in Bridgerton, you’re not wrong. According to Oprah Magazine, the series utilized a smorgasbord of locations from various other period pieces. From Hatfield House (where The Favourite was filmed) to Wilton House (used in The Crown), it’s a “where’s where” of period piece spaces.

One of the show’s conceits is that the dark look of furnishing, which usually characterizes period pieces, is the dirt of ages. According to Bridgerton, in 1813, everything was as bright as if it were newly made. That meant everything was made from scratch for the show, down to the curtains and carpets.

Bridgerton was filmed on location whenever possible. That includes the Bridgerton home seat of Aubrey Hall, which was filmed at Wrotham Park in Potters Bar. Other movies filmed there include Gosford Park, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, and the Kingsman franchise.

Actor Golda Rosheuvel, who plays Queen Charlotte, had a blast working with the pups on set. Apparently, all the dogs had strong personalities — but that’s OK, so does the queen.

After wearing loud and garish gowns throughout Season 1, the Featheringtons were allowed to wear silver, gold, and white for Season 2’s Diamond Ball. Philippa’s gown had 14,000 crystals in four shades of gold, while Penelope’s dress was inspired by a John Galliano gown famously sported by Kylie Minogue.

If the Royal Ascot felt like something out of the Audrey Hepburn musical My Fair Lady, that's because it was. The production team used the 1965 film as a direct inspiration for designing the Royal Races, which the show filmed at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club.

Learning this is a total heartbreaker, but all the flowers are fake because real ones would never last a day on set.

Kate and Anthony’s dance at the Hearts and Flowers Ball is actually derived from an authentic 18th-century ballroom dance known as an “allemande.” There were a lot of arm movements involved, which helped add to the sensuality of the scene, according to Netflix.

The only ball filmed on location in Season 2 was Lady Danbury’s ball in the conservatory. It was filmed at Syon Park Conservatory. Like most of the exteriors of Bridgerton residences in London, Lady Danbury’s house exterior was filmed in Bath, with the Holburne Museum as a stand-in.

The palette for the Featheringtons can be described as “eye-searing and butterflies.” The Bridgertons, in contrast, are a cool blue, studded with bees. But it’s not just any blue; it’s Wedgewood, the color of the famous English-made bone china that became a staple in the Regency era.

The show is credited as created by Chris Van Dusen, who served as its showrunner for Seasons 1 and 2. But doing a Regency-set series was Rhimes’ idea in the first place. According to Van Dusen, Shona Rhimes gave him the Julia Quinn novels. Speaking to Cosmopolitan UK, he said she wanted him to bring it to life onscreen, and after reading the books, he fell in love. The rest was history.