Netflix Preps 'Bridgerton Experience' While Page Teases Season 2 Cameo

Bridgerton Season 2 started filming in the spring of 2021. However, with Netflix focusing on The Witcher Season 2 as its big fantasy release this holiday season, it seems the streamer isn't planning on more romantic adventures of the ton's favorite family until 2022. That's good news for the production, which has experienced multiple delays due to COVID shutting it down twice over the summer, the second time for an extended period. But since August, things have been back on track, and it looks like the series will be ready on time for the next romantic entanglement, this time with Viscount Anthony Bridgerton and recent London arrival Kate Sharma.

But Anthony may not be the only heartthrob heading to London in Season 2. Despite the production announcing that Regé-Jean Page, who plays Season 1's leading man, the Duke of Hastings, would bid the show adieu, the actor recently hinted he might return in a cameo appearance. Though one of the series' significant improvements on the books was extending the romantic foibles of the Bridgerton siblings to create a larger ensemble, the show didn't think through keeping Daphne's main squeeze after their story concluded. The production assumed audiences would be done with him once he was done wooing. But the outcry over his departure proved otherwise.

Sources continue to tell Variety the actor will not return next season. But Page fanned the flames anyway, teasing a possible return in a recent interview with British GQ. Though at first, the actor insisted, "I couldn't possibly tell you!" he wound up hinting that something might be in the cards: "Isn't there something wonderful about being surprised by what you weren't suspecting?" Not that fans need more reason to tune in for another installment of the family soap opera, but the hope of more Page doesn't hurt.