'Bridgerton' star offers rare insights into new gig

Bessie Carter, best known for her portrayal of Prudence Featherington in Bridgerton, recently weighed in on her new role.

For those unversed, the actress has landed a role in the drama series Outrageous.

In a new chat with Us Weekly, Bessie pointed out the core differences between the real socialites and the actors playing them.

“We made a very conscious decision early on not to do their voices, because if you look at any interviews of the sisters, they speak very clipped, and it’s very inaccessible,” she began.

In addition to this, Bessie, who plays the eldest Mitford sister Nancy in the TV drama series, addressed that this decision of not doing their character voices was mutual and intentional.

“We knew that would alienate the audience because that’s not the important part,” she noted and added, “How they sounded is not important, it’s what their lives [and] what unfolded in their lives that’s important, and the tension between the six sisters and watching that drama play out.”

Elaborating on her own role, she added, “For Nancy, there [are] loads of photographs of her. They were all splashed all over Vogue, Tatler, all over the papers. There were a lot of visual aids, which was mainly sort of taken up by our amazing costume designer, who really defined all of the six sisters fashion-wise very specifically to what they actually were like.”

In conclusion, she said, “And then we put our own personal touches on it to make them distinct and our own and very lived-in.”