Jessica Radloff, Laura Hampson
One of your favourite Bridgerton cast members, Golda Rosheuvel, was in the middle of filming episode three of Netflix’s sweeping Shondaland series when she let Glamour in on a little secret about becoming Queen Charlotte. “I’m wearing two wigs,” she revealed back in January 2021. “It’s a wig on top of a wig! And the three feathers are real hair that Adam James Phillips [the show’s principal hairstylist] crafted by hand. It’s genius. Every look is different.”
Rosheuvel may have been talking about her character’s look specifically, but “genius” can be used to describe nearly every costume on the show. Thanks to a lot of wigs, sideburns, and even fake fringe, most of the Bridgerton cast looks completely different in everyday life than they do onscreen.
That’s no surprise, considering Bridgerton on Netflix is set in Regency-era London. But now that over 82 million households streamed the third season of the lavish series, it’s only normal that some might assume Polly Walker (Lady Featherington) has red hair IRL or Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury) walks around with a tiara. Not so!
If you happened to spot the Bridgerton cast in the wild, would you really know what they looked like?
(L to R) Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma, Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in episode 204.LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX
So what does everyone look like off- and onscreen? Well, consider this your cheat sheet as we now eagerly await a fourth season (please give us Benedict’s story, Shonda, we beg you).
This article originally appeared on GLAMOUR US.