Who Plays Benedict Bridgerton? Is Benedict Bridgerton Gay?

Contents:

• WHO IS BENEDICT BRIDGERTON? IS HE GAY?
• THE HISTORIL CASE FOR A GAY BRIDGERTON
• BRIDGERTON: SO… BENEDICT’S NOT GAY?
• WILL ‘BRIDGERTON’ SEASON 2 ACTUALLY DELIVER GAY CONTENT?

WHO IS BENEDICT BRIDGERTON? IS HE GAY?

In Bridgerton Season 1, we meet a closeted gay artist! But Bridgerton Season 2, all we got were a few extras actg, well, extra, and the subtext that some of Benedict’s fellow art school stunts might be gay. Benedict, wh his gay art iends, and Eloise “I Want More Than to be a Wife” Bridgerton were givg off “closeted baby queer” vib.

There were hop that maybe Benedict’s gallivantg wh Sir Henry Granville (Julian Ovenn) would precipate a gay dalliance for the bohemian Bridgerton or that Eloise would realize she loved, say, Penelope. That said, there are a few other characters wag the wgs and Julia Qun’s future books who uld also gay thgs up future seasons of Bridgerton….

There is one nonil gay supportg character who shows up Julia Qun’s later books, but there’s also a key love tert who hontly giv off big pansexual energy. Michael Stirlg is not gay the Julia Qun books and yet he seems to give off the most nonilly queer vib. Could Any of the Bridgertons Get a Gay Happily Ever After?

THE HISTORIL CASE FOR A GAY BRIDGERTON

Will none of the Bridgertons ever be gay?!? My vote for the gay Bridgerton siblg, though?

You n easily see that as a gay love story! Ever sce readg the character breakdown for young Agatha Danbury (Adjoa Andoh), to be played by Arsema Thomas, I n’t help but wonr if Lady Danbury’s big love story — the one she boasted about to Kate Sharma — is gog to be a gay one. The royal servicemen are servicg each Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has fally troduced to the popular media anchise two explicly gay characters who actually have a lot of screen time and their own storyl to be we had gotten some blk-and-you-miss- reprentatn of gay men on the flagship Bridgerton seri, the Queen Charlotte prequel seri featur two more fully-realized characters: Brimsley, the Queen’s secretary (played by Sam Clemmett), and Reynolds, the Kg’s secretary (played by Freddie Dennis) only are the characters gay, but they have recurrg storyl the seri and are known for sneakg out to have sex whenever they to appearg on Queen Charlotte, Clemmett was bt known for appearg films and TV shows like Cherry, The War Below, and Enavour.

The 33-year-old Bridgerton star, who portrays Anthony Bridgerton on the Netflix h, opened up about his experience g out as gay a new profile wh GQ.

BRIDGERTON: SO… BENEDICT’S NOT GAY?

Thkg back to the early days of his reer, Bailey relled how one of his actor iends was once told durg pilot season, "There's two thgs we don't want to know: if you're an alholic or if you're gay. Though Bailey's Bridgerton character intifi as straight, the actor has prevly argued that gay men should be able to play their own experienc on the screen. "I thk shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of urse, there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay men aren't playg straight leadg rol, " he told Digal Spy December 2020.

"And also, there's a reason why gay characters are so tertg.

Bee much like the women Bridgerton, there are a lot of hurdl and there's a lot of self-growth, and there's a real strength to gay men.

WILL ‘BRIDGERTON’ SEASON 2 ACTUALLY DELIVER GAY CONTENT?

Bailey ntued, "So the fact that a lot of straight men have gone on to play inic gay rol and to be ld for that is fantastic, that that story is beg told.

But wouldn't be brilliant to see gay men play their own experience? It suggted that the send elst Bridgerton might actually be gay — or, at the very least, bisexual. And their anger seems well placed light of shownner Chris Van Den recently givg an terview and sayg that the character's storyle Season 1 was not meant to suggt he was gay and that was a "nsc choice" not to have his sexualy be fluid Season 2.