Bridgerton author Julia Quinn says Daphne and Simon should return and ‘mingle’ in series two

Bridgerton’s author has said she wants Daphne and the Duke of Hastings to return in series two, despite not being the main focus of her second book.

Julia Quinn, 52, has sold more than 10 million novels during her incredible career and wrote the inspiration behind the Netflix hit – The Duke and I – 21 years ago.

However, as the show moves towards its second season, which will be based on the book The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia has revealed she wants bosses to deviate from the plot and shoot spicy scenes with the characters of Phoebe Dynevor and Rege-Jean Page. .

Talking about the couple coming back in an interview with The Sun, Julia said, “I hope so. They do appear in the [second] book. The series doesn’t follow the book word for word – and I don’t think so either [it] should.

So I hope so, for no other reason than that Daphne has the right to interfere in Anthony’s life. To deny her that chance would be a crime. I think it would be nice to see. ‘

Julia also teased what fans can expect in the highly anticipated series two, which will focus on Bridgerton’s eldest brother Anthony.

She said, ‘Anthony is getting it bad. Jonathan Bailey played it so well; you still love him, but he needs to be taken off a pin, and he will be taken off so many pins. It is awesome.’

In series one, Anthony tried to be the head of his large household while in love with opera singer Siena Rosso (played by Sabrina Bartlett).

Although viewers were shown snippets of his story, along with bits of the lives of the other five Bridgerton siblings in the first season, it was mostly focused on Daphne.

Julia also revealed that her friends and family told her not to hope that the series will be turned into a TV show as many novels are given an option and not picked up in Hollywood.

But after Bridgerton’s incredible success after its Christmas Day launch, Julia joked that she has now become her uncle’s favorite family member and has even had to send him signed copies to hand out to the nurses at his residential care center.

In its first month of streaming, Bridgerton was watched by 82 MILLION households around the world and was a top show in several countries.

The spicy series has had many talking for its steamy content, with some of the stars revealing they haven’t been able to watch it with their families.

Standout star Nicola Coughlan recently admitted that she was hurt watching the show with her mother because of the ‘non-stop’ on-screen sex.

“I knew pretty well how the episodes went and how sexy they were in them,” she told the Make It Reign podcast. When I showed her the first episode and Johnny Bailey’s ass appeared very quickly in episode one, she was like, ‘what’s going on!’

“I had to say,” It’s not my fault I didn’t write it, they’re romantic novels and it’s a very important part of the story, “but I was still in trouble.”

Nicola, 34, who plays Penelope Featherington, explained how episode 6 – titled Swish – turned out to be the most awkward to watch with her mom.

With Episode 6 I was like, “Oh my god, what am I going to do? It’s non-stop shagging! I’m going to get in trouble”. I said shagging on the Graham Norton show and I was dead.

‘I was sweating when I looked at it! What I finally did was just quickly go through all the sexy bits and at the end of the episode she said, “That was really short!” ‘

When asked if his family had seen the show’s more grown-up scenes performing on The Graham Norton Show, Rege-Jean said, “ A few cousins ​​were missing from the family’s WhatsApp family and they said, ‘We made our tactical cups. tea when you started and when we got back you still went! ”