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‘Even if Bridgerton is my peak, what a beautiful peak. If this is the best thing I do? Great.'. Read the full interview ⤵️.

Colourism is, she says, pervasive in the entertainment industry. ‘Being a person of colour, we’re not unitary, we’re not one thing'. ‘We should be more specific about making sure we’re representing different groups of people.’

❓So how did her family feel about swapping her future at the blue-chip Boston Consulting Group for the altogether more bohemian life of a thespian?. 'There are so many wonderful things about this career, but stability is not one of them. So they were really scared’.

Her Indian heritage remains core to her identity. 🗣️‘I love India so much,’ she says. 'What I really love about Indian culture is this idea of obligation and duty. I don’t think it’s as common in the West'

She paints a happy picture of her student days. 🗣️‘Growing up, I think I was in a bit of a bubble because I was so ambitious and focused… Oxford opened my eyes politically, socially, culturally and just made me a better person.’.

The ‘colour-conscious’ casting of the steamy Georgian drama – created by Shonda Rhimes’s powerhouse studio Shondaland – has been key to the series’ success. 📺‘I think that Bridgerton has done for TV what Hamilton did for theatre,’ Chandran says.

➡️But then the pandemic struck, the start date of her BCG job got deferred, and in a carpe diem moment, she started cold-emailing agents, ‘with these kind of amateur headshots’.

Acting was never supposed to be Chandran’s career plan. 🎓Having just graduated the previous year from New College, Oxford, she was on the cusp of starting a highly sought-after job at the prestigious Boston Consulting Group.

📞 Charithra Chandran was helping her mother with the gardening on their Oxfordshire allotment last spring when the call came through, inviting her to test shoot with Jonathan Bailey. 'We were cutting tubing for her polytunnel!’ Chandran recalls, laughing.

📺As the second series of #Bridgerton arrives, its newest star Charithra Chandran talks about colour-conscious casting, an Oxford education and romance. Read the full interview ⤵️.

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