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‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats

‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats

‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats
Apr 14, 2024 56 secs

Jessie is best known as Eloise Bridgerton, the fifth daughter of a wealthy family finding its place in high society, in Netflix’s boundary-breaking Regency-era drama.

Photograph: Julia Kennedy/The ObserverThe latest season sees change in the air for Bridgerton’s lords, ladies and their court of toffs, who scandalously shag and scheme their way to the top of the social strata.

As the show’s scene stealer, Jessie laughs at “being able to get away with murder” when playing Eloise: she refuses to conform to the muted, era-specific expectations of etiquette that the rest of the cast must.

The way we were: Claudia Jessie as Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair Photograph: ITVIt’s symptomatic of a wider class chasm, she believes, that plagues the industry.

She maintains particular vitriol for Bring the Drama, the recent BBC reality show, fronted by Bill Bailey, in which aspiring actors are given “the opportunity to fulfil their TV dreams” in a format similar to The X Factor.

Styling by Hope Lawrie; photographer’s assistant Mike Mills; makeup by Zoë Taylor at C/O Management using Shiseido; hair by Stefan Bertin using Redken

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