Yerin Ha and Luke Thompson Step Into a ‘Bridgerton’ Fairy Tale

janvier 25, 2026

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Yerin Ha and Luke Thompson Step Into a 'Bridgerton' Fairy Tale

The first time Yerin Ha and Luke Thompson met in person was on the doorstep of Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell's London apartment. She had invited the two of them to her home to eat tacos before production on season four began. Thompson was standing outside when Ha's Uber pulled up, and he waited for her before entering. "He just immediately had his arms open and gave a long hug, and I [thought], 'Oh, you're a nice person. You have a heart of gold,'" Ha says. "I'm a big believer in energy, and I was like, 'I think you match mine.'" Their hug, Ha says, was captured by Brownell's ring camera—though not saved. "That video would have been iconic," Ha jokes, "but it lives in my brain."

They had previously connected over Zoom, for a chemistry reading. Thompson had three seasons portraying the second-eldest Bridgerton, Benedict, under his belt; just days earlier Ha had submitted a self-taped audition to play season four's leading lady, Sophie. Thompson remembers immediately thinking "we found what we're looking for" during that reading; their chemistry, Brownell recalls, "jumped out of the screen." The two read the lake scene—no spoilers, but it's a key moment in Benedict and Sophie's love story that readers of An Offer from a Gentleman, the Julia Quinn novel that inspired this season of Netflix's hit Regency romance, will recognize. Soon afterward, Ha landed the role of Sophie Beckett, whose last name was quickly changed to Baek as a nod to Ha's Korean heritage.

"I had an intuition that we were just going to discover it as we went along," Thompson says of their characters' courtship, "that we weren't going to try and force anything and that we weren't going to really work hard at somehow making chemistry happen. We just were like, 'Okay, let's go on this adventure together.'"

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