Hollywood is still obsessed with why Regé-Jean Page – the breakthrough star of Netflix’s most-watched series ever, “Bridgerton”, walked away after just one season.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote on Tuesday in the latest post-mortem examination after his retirement that the actor had signed a one-year deal, but then was offered an opportunity to return as a guest star in three to five episodes of season two – against ‘ at a rate of $ 50,000 per episode – but refused. ”
Page has already said he is attracted to his role because it only has a ‘one-season bow’. He told Variety: “I can come in, I’ll make my contribution and then the ‘Bridgerton’ family will start.”
THR further reported on Tuesday that ‘sources say that almost everyone close to the show knew that Page only had a one-year deal’, and that Page ‘was laser-focused on his budding film career’.
His agents are apparently “flooded with movie deals”, and there is even a zeal for him to take over the role of James Bond. He is already filming a role in an upcoming “Dungeons and Dragons” feature and has starred in a big budget Netflix movie by the Avuros: Endgame gurus the Russo Brothers.
The contribution to the obsession with Page’s exit from the Shonda Rhimes show is perhaps the history of the industry of once budding stars who left TV hits for greener pastures, with varying degrees of success – of David Caruso’s infamous “NYPD Blue “exit to Dan Stevens’ departure from” Downton Abbey. “
Season 2 of “Bridgerton” is being filmed and is another outburst, Phoebe Dynevor, who also made headlines for the quiet departure of an SNL star, Pete Davidson.