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Simone Ashley<\/strong><\/a> addressed her loyalty to Bridgerton<\/em><\/a> despite her character Kate\u2019s decreased screen time.<\/p>\n

During the Monday, April 13, episode of \u201cThe Louis Theroux Podcast,\u201d<\/a> Ashley, 31, credited Jonathan Bailey<\/strong> for teaching her some important lessons about making Bridgerton a priority, adding, \u201cHe set a great example of \u2014 for lack of a better word \u2014 the loyalty to the show. It is a show about family and returning home and returning to the family. I think a lot of people follow that suit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashley \u201clearned a lot<\/a>\u201d from Bailey, 37.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow when we go back, there is that environment of coming home and feeling like we\u2019re part of a family,\u201d she added. \u201cI can only comment on what me and Johnny have done. We just really make sure that our schedules can just make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashley continued: \u201cHe flew between Toronto and London back and forth whilst he was filming Wicked. Thank God I\u2019ve not been filming during the start of this year. I\u2019ve done like eight cities in one month. So that would have been a bit nuts to figure out. But I would have done it. I would have scheduled it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate\u2019s romance with Anthony (Bailey) was the focus of Bridgerton season 2. Since most of the season was focused<\/a> on Anthony getting out of a courtship with her sister, Edwina (Charithra Chandran<\/strong>), before getting together with Kate, viewers were expecting the pair to play a large role in season 3.<\/p>\n

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Season 3, however, featured Anthony and Kate sharing only a handful of scenes before disappearing on a second honeymoon. They returned toward the end of the season to announce Kate\u2019s pregnancy, which is when the pair decided to take a trip to India. Season 4, meanwhile, explained Anthony and Kate\u2019s continued<\/a> absence by keeping them in India after the arrival of their first baby.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the strength of sending them off to India for a little while is that it does leave the door open for them to come back, schedules allowing,\u201d Brownell told Teen Vogue of the characters in June 2024. \u201cI think, understandably, when any of our lead actors have given over their lives for their season, in future seasons, we want to be supportive of the fact that they do have other projects coming in, and to ask actors to come back just to be in the background is not really fair to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Brownell explained the planned vision<\/a> for Kate and Anthony.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think after all they went through in their season, obviously, the focus for us this season was just showing them in a more loving place. But we also wanted to underscore how they\u2019re still the Kate and Anthony you know,\u201d she continued. \u201cThey still banter with each other and get annoyed at each other. We wanted them to show up in that way \u2026 They\u2019re in a much wiser place, both of them, in their relationship to relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

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