Bridgerton’s Hannah Dodd Recollects Strolling on to Set After Watching Present (Unique)

Hannah Dodd admits it was surreal to affix the Bridgerton household.

The 28-year-old actress — who performs Francesca Bridgerton, changing actress Ruby Stokes — tells PEOPLE that it was “the weirdest feeling strolling round these units once you’ve watched the present” earlier than recalling her first day on the set of the hit Netflix sequence.

“I believe my first day, it was meant to be actually scary, I used to be meant to have a scene with an entire household, and play piano,” she shares. “However that received very kindly moved to my second day. So, my first day ended as much as be only a scene with Mama Ruth [Gemmell] once we’re sat on the couch collectively. So, it felt just a little bit extra manageable, and I used to be holding onto Ruth for expensive life, and she or he was so good.” 

She added: “And I believe we went and had a cup of tea collectively after, like, ‘First one’s executed!’ After which, I needed to play piano for the entire household the second day, which I used to be terrified about. Nevertheless it was form of like a baptism of fireside after that, after which I used to be in.”

Dodd remembers the forged of Bridgerton being “so pretty” and “sort” regardless of her being “actually scared.”

“I used to be actually nervous about becoming a member of,” she explains. “However yeah, they only welcomed me with open arms, and I used to be having banter with them within the inexperienced room on my first day, and now I can not think about not understanding any of them. It is the weirdest concept that I would not know them.”

The Anatomy of a Scandal star admits “it was the perfect feeling ever” to be part of the forged of Bridgerton for season 3, regardless of her first-day jitters.

“I could not actually consider it. I believe I used to be with my household on the time, which was very nice, so I used to be surrounded by those that I needed to inform immediately,” she says of being forged. “Nevertheless it was undoubtedly… I believe it is the largest one I’ve ever received. So, it was fairly a particular second.” 

In Could 2022, Netflix introduced Dodd’s casting after Stokes, 23 — who performed Francesca in seasons 1 and a pair of, left the present to steer Lockwood & Co., one other sequence on the streamer.

“Francesca Bridgerton is a little bit of a thriller inside her chatty, extroverted household,” Netflix mentioned in an announcement on the time. “Regardless of her reserved nature, she goes alongside to get alongside with regards to society affairs, fortified with a dry wit and pragmatism that confound the fickle ton but appear to attract consideration when she least wishes it.”

Dodd teases that Francesca’s “path to like form of seems to be barely completely different to perhaps what we have seen the opposite siblings undergo.” 

“She’s received fairly a sensible strategy, and she or he would not like drawing an excessive amount of consideration to herself,” she shares. “So, she needs to get in and get out, discover any individual sort. And that is one thing that her and [her mother] Violet, they’ve a enjoyable dynamic that we get to play, as a result of Violet clearly needs one thing very particular for her.” 

“I am excited for folks to see a barely completely different strategy to the wedding mart,” she provides.

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The primary a part of Bridgerton season 3 premieres on Could 16, and half 2 drops on June 13. Seasons 1 and a pair of of Bridgerton — in addition to its spinoff, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story — are actually streaming on Netflix.