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‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 on Netflix: Rege-Jean Page in talks to return, fans ‘secretly hope its real’

Ever since news of Rege-Jean Page trying to make a return in ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 has broken out, fans are giving mixed reactions

Fans have fallen in love with the hit period drama series, ‘Bridgerton’. After all who doesn’t love a period drama with a new spin on romance, love and relationships mixed with a bit of ‘Gossip Girl’. Especially audiences fell in love with Simon (Rege-Jean Page) and Daphne's (Phoebe Dynevor) love story, which was the major story arc of the hit first season that streamed on Netflix.

Now an exciting scoop here for fans is that recently, there have been talks between the makers of ‘Bridgerton’ and Rege-Jean Page. It could be an indirect hint that maybe Page might be returning for the ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3.

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According to the Sun, it could be possible that maybe Page would be coming back to reprise his role of Duke Hastings in the third season which would be focusing majorly on the life of the secret writer Penelope Featherington.

One source told in his quote to the Sun, “Rege-Jean was always very open about his intention to quit the show after the first season and to move on to other projects. But recently there has been a dialogue between him and the show’s bosses. Nothing has been formally agreed yet, but watch this space. Things are very up in the air at the moment, but this will be an exciting year for Rege, without a doubt”.

As soon this news broke out on the social media, fans went into a storm and started giving mixed reactions to the same on Twitter.

‘HE BETTER’, wrote a fan. ‘He better, need Daphne with her husband close’, a user wrote. ‘Secretly hoping this is real. Even though it probably won’t happen or be like the books. But I love his relationship to Polin. How him & LD start the clap for Pen. How he helps his nephew (Polin’s son) in the epilogue I can dream #Bridgerton’, added another fan. ‘I loved all the epilogue scenes the most. Like when Polin is worried their son isn’t talking & Simon has letters from his dad he nvr opened & even though it could cause him pain he opens them becuz he thinks there’s a chance there could be something that helps his nephew’, said a fan. ‘YASSS OMG!!!! Saphne Stans we move’, noted a fan. ‘Y’all better not be playing with me’, a fan wrote. ‘He'll nah. He thought himself too good for a supporting role (until he realized the show was a success without him), now he can fuck right off’, added another fan. ‘Coming back to save the show.  Knew it was coming after the Phoebe PR pics considering the way he ignored them all for a year’, a fan said.

This comes out in picture after Page confessed openly about how the ‘Bridgerton’ fans slammed him when he had been cast as the Duke.

In an interview with Variety dated May 2021, Page opened up about the backlash he received and more said, “I’m going to shout out the book’s Brazilian fans specifically, because they had my back before anyone else did. When everyone else was still passive aggressively getting all knotted up because I didn’t have blue eyes, the Brazilians were there for me”.

In an interview with Hollywood Reporter dated May 2021, creator Shonda Rhimes spilling the beans on how there was no way to bring Page into the series if they followed the book, shared, “I was just excited about the idea of being able to tell a complete romantic tale that has an end, where you're not finding 14 other reasons why the couple can't be together or frankly having Regé stand in the background of somebody else's romance”.

Netflix executive Bela Bajaria also added, “Those books really dictated what we did, and we want talent to have an amazing experience and tell the story they're telling authentically, not, 'Oh, can you just come over here and do this little thing?”.