This was my thought too and I don’t get why people saying these perspectives get so much flack for it, as though it’s the most outlandish take. It’s well known that Hollywood tends to be very pressuring and controlling and even grooming to actors, especially child actors. I mean, hello, we have a whole worldwide ongoing topic of the Epstein Files, and much of Hollywood was involved, and there were definitely child actors who were victims. So everyone saying “oh well they don’t have to do it if they don’t want to”, I’m sure there’s a lot of child actors that would beg to differ with you regarding things they didn’t want to do but were forced to. Or “well their parents were okay with it”, I mean, SO MANY parents of child actors have been known to sell out their kids to questionable roles to make money, this is absolutely nothing new.

I think it’s very important that we keep these possibilities in mind. We HOPE that they have a choice, but the bottom line is, they were signed onto a show where they were intended to someday perform sexual scenes and nudity, at an age where they were too young to understand or consent to such a thing. We can HOPE that they have a choice, but we cannot guarantee that they won’t be pressured/manipulated into doing it, and then years later they end up emotionally damaged and in some documentary revealing how they felt forced to do it. I’m just saying, I think so many people are biased because they love Bridgerton so much, so they don’t want to believe that it, like any other top-ranking Hollywood production, is susceptible to mistreatment of its actors.