Few weeks ago, the news of Regé-Jean Page’s exit from Netflix’s hit period drama, ‘Bridgerton’, shocked fans, especially as it followed reports that a new season was already in production.
In the midst of the online protests and unanswered questions about the Duke of Hastings not featuring in the new season, it was reported that the Zimbabwean star actor left the show following creative differences with executive producer, Shonda Rhimes.
According to Page Six, Rege-Jean Page left the show on good terms after reportedly turning down what the producers had created for his Duke of Hastings character.
“He wasn’t happy with what was planned for his character for Season 2, which would have kept him a player but not the focal point of the show.”a Page Six source revealed.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Page was offered $50,000 per episode to appear as a guest star but he turned down the offer for “a multitude of reasons”.
Page had told Variety that he accepted to be cast in the show’s first season because he believed it was a “one-season arc” that would see him “contribute my bit and then the Bridgerton family rolls on.”
The Bridgerton is a series that hit the screen for the first time in December 2020. It is a Netflix movie.
In the first few weeks the movie was released on Netflix, it had 82 million views.