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Bridgerton has courted Yerin Ha as the love interest for Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) in the upcoming fourth installment of Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix series.
Sources confirmed to Deadline that Ha is set to portray Sophie Beckett, who has a slow burn romance with Benedict in Julia Quinn’s novel An Offer From a Gentleman, on which Season 4 will be based.
Per Netflix’s official logline: “The fourth season of Bridgerton turns its focus to bohemian second son Benedict. Despite his elder and younger brothers both being happily married, Benedict is loath to settle down — until he meets a captivating Lady in Silver at his mother’s masquerade ball.”
That “Lady in Silver” is Sophie. In the novel, she is the daughter of an earl and one of his mades. Though she was brought up in his house out of a sense of responsibility, he never claimed her as his kin and allowed her to suffer quite a troubling upbringing at the hands of her stepmother and stepsisters.
Benedict’s search for a love match is the subject of the third book in Julia Quinn’s series, An Offer from a Gentleman. The TV series made a change in the order with Season 3 taking on the fourth book instead, Romancing Mister Bridgerton, which spotlights the romance between Colin Bridgerton, played by Luke Newton, and Penelope Featherington, played by Nicola Coughlan.
Sophie’s casted was highly anticipated, even before Netflix confirmed that the fourth season would be about her and Benedict’s love story.
The very end of the Season 3 finale teased the beginning of Benedict’s love story might have been coming soon as Eloise (Claudia Jessie) — who is off to Scotland with Francesca — promises to be back in time for their mother’s famous masquerade ball. That is, of course, where Benedict and Sophie first cross paths in the books.
In July, Netflix confirmed that Thompson’s Benedict would be taking the lead for Season 4.
