Fans are still feeling the burn from Regé-Jean Page’s intense romance scenes with co-star Phoebe Dynevor, who played his onscreen love interest, Daphne Bridgerton. He and his family? Not so much.
While his breakout role as Duke Of Hastings helped make him hot Hollywood commodity, Regé admits that he was not “sufficiently prepared” to see himself onscreen.
“No one was sufficiently prepared. I wasn’t sufficiently prepared, and I was there,” Regé shared with The Hollywood Reporter. “I think people were grateful for the intensity of the romantic aspects of Bridgerton; I’m not sure how grateful I was to watch it for myself.”
“It was overwhelming,” he admits, adding, “But I think people were looking to be overwhelmed.”
His family, however, has learned to take it in stride.
“My family doesn’t want to be overwhelmed by my backside, specifically, too often,” he told the outlet, “but they’ll take it on this occasion because everyone seems to be terribly happy.”
Fans have been swooning over their Daphne and Simon’s romance on the first season of Bridgerton, with many commenting how Phoebe and Regé’s onscreen chemistry was so off-the-charts. However, it appears many have also been remembering who said one of the shows iconic line: “I burn for you.”
During an appearance on Variety‘s Making a Scene earlier this month, Regé set the record straight about whose line that actually was.
“I do not say, ‘I burn for you.’ It’s not my line!” he says.
A quick review of the wedding night scene will confirm that it’s actually Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) who confesses that line to Simon (Regé) in the episode “The Duke And I.”
But there are actually a lot of times the word “burn” comes up during that entire dialogue, so the confusion is totally understandable. And even Regé agrees.
“Everyone clearly was feeling very burned for, which I’ll take as a compliment,” he adds.
