Rege-Jean Page

“Not boys don't cry' - boys should cry, and it makes you healthier and stronger for it.”

“I clearly had a career in musical theater ahead of me and somewhere took a left turn and started getting all dour and serious and doing emotionally broken dukes.”

“As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.”

“'Bridgerton' is a lot like the period dramas that you know and love, but nothing like it's forerunner. It's faster, funny, sexier, and more glamorous.”

“I found comfort in aggression, in breaking through false walls and challenging norms.”

“Home is a relative concept. Home is very much wherever it is that your people are and where you fit in.”

“I've never felt particularly comfortable in any defined boundaries, ever.”

“What's making this meal actually worth eating? I think of Bridgerton' as a Happy Meal, but with secret vitamins put in there. It's like a secretly healthy, organic burger.”

“The freakiest thing about working on a Russo set is that the standards are so insanely high for everyone in every department that they don't police you through stuff. They're like, Here's this insanely difficult thing; do it.' And then they just expect you to be able to do it, because they don't hire folks who can't.”

“I was playing with the audience between takes. And the SNL' crew was like, OK, we see you.' I'm like, Dude, they're right there.' If you were playing a rock show, you don't just go quiet and tune your guitar between songs. You have a little bit of chat, a little bit of banter.”

“My mum will come along and support whatever I'm doing in a very willing way, if nothing else.”

“I try to kind of surf the waves as they come and stay loose so that if anything does throw me off balance, I'm kind of floppy enough to roll with it.”

“I get to come in, I get to contribute my bit, and then the Bridgerton' family rolls on.”

“I think the idea we had with Bridgerton' was very much in the early conversations, to do something fresh and exciting and entirely more fun, fast, funny and glamorous than has been done before in the period genre.”

“I pretty much immediately ran away from university to be an actor.”

“And I think that figuring out how to open the doors in yourself that make you worthy of love and capable of giving love is that ongoing conversation that I was most interested in exploring.”

“Don't be afraid to shock people or be unexpected.”

“I was up at 5 A. M. every day, going to the gym, meeting my trainer. He was horrible to me for an hour and a half every morning before the day started. I got my strength up just from surviving him.”

“I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.”

“It's not always about reaching the widest audience. It's about how you reach people, and in that sense, there's no difference between a little room in a back basement with ten people if you hit them hard enough, there's a nobility to reaching ten people. They are not irrelevant because they are less than 10,000.”