- Bridgerton season 4 may not feature Kate and Anthony.
- Showrunner Jess Brownell would still like to see the return of Kate and Anthony.
- The show’s success makes it hard to justify taking screen time away from Penelope for the pair.
The return of one couple for Bridgerton season 4 is teased by showrunner Jess Brownell. Bridgerton season 3 recently wrapped up its run on Netflix, where it was met with positive reviews and high viewership numbers on the Netflix charts. The Bridgerton season 3 ending leaves a lot of questions still to be answered, which the show will luckily have the opportunity to do in the already-slated Bridgerton season 4.
Speaking with Variety, Brownell addresses whether Kate and Anthony will return for Bridgerton season 4. According to the creative, the return of the couple is far from certain as it will “be dependent on a lot of factors.” Said factors include how much story time the “main couples” take up in Bridgerton season 4, and thus whether there will physically be enough run time to cover Kate and Anthony. Furthermore, Brownell reflected on the difficulty of stepping down to smaller roles when they may have other opportunities. Check out the full quote from Brownell below:
I mean, we absolutely hope to see more of them. But itll be dependent on a lot of factors. Itll be dependent on how much story the main couples take up, and whether there is story room. It will be dependent on whether the actors are available. As you can imagine, when you have an actor step into a lead role on the show and really lead the main story, its difficult to ask them to give up a lot of exciting opportunities to play as more of a side character. So we try to be very respectful of our actors in terms of letting them go off and do other things. And it works perfectly fine for us, because of the nature of the show shifting focus. We always want to give our main couple that screen time. So well see what happens. But I love those two, and I would always be happy to see more from them.