#The day when they shot that video where they announce s3 (and steal the hand thing from kathony 🙄) simone isn’t in it

[lizzibennet]

I had no idea Simone Ashley faced mistreatment from production could you link some posts talking about it please?

i don’t think there is like one masterpost (if anyone knows of one please let me know!!!!) but what they meant by that is basically how simone (and to a certain degree jonny as well) was basically boycotted by the bton production team. she had little in the way of interviews/mag covers, they didn’t have many interviews together (i think they had like two?? that i remember off the top of my head), they seemed to prefer to send her with either nicola or charithra or both instead of on her own like phoebe did for s1 which people interpreted as netflix not believing in simone’s star power and/or being racist towards her. it was almost like she was a side character or one of the mains and not THE main character (along with jonny obv) of the season. i think this is true, it’s clear to me that simone and phoebe were treated differently and i would bet it’s racism tbh, but i don’t throw out the possibility something else might have happened with the production team. regé also seems to have had a bad experience with the team in general, so much so he doesn’t even wanna hear a peep about bridgerton, and unfortunately i don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two non white leads of both seasons seem to have had negative experiences w them

#there’s more like i said in very broad strokes what happened but like #The day when they shot that video where they announce s3 (and steal the hand thing from kathony 🙄) simone isn’t in it #and i think they said something to the effect of simone was not on set that day #And it’s like girl. wait until she is then???!?!? she is the main char of s2!!! you couldn’t have filmed that video another day????? #i don’t have posts to link because i was mainly keeping up with this through twitter but if anyone has like a masterpost pls let me know #anonymous #what is my ask tag again