Bridgerton’s new leading lady is a Sydney local who didn’t grow up watching period dramas. But she’s already enchanting the world.
Australian actor Yerin Ha was grocery shopping with her mum in the South Korean countryside when she got the first of two phone calls that would catapult her to worldwide stardom.was looking for a new leading lady, and they’d need her audition tape back within 24 hours.
“We started watching season two together and, watching some of the scenes, she’d be like ‘Oh my god! Do you have to do that?’ … It just feels surreal that I’m a part of it,” she says, laughing. “Even just changing the name means a lot,” Ha says. “I didn’t grow up watching because I never related to the stories. There was never really that kind of representation in those dramas, so I never connected with them.”
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