Maia Mitchell has already worked with Hannah Dodd so what are the possibilities she could join her hit Netflix series Bridgerton?
“Oh my God, why not? I’ll ask Hannah. I’ll text her now,” Mitchell exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting season 2 of Hulu’s The Artful Dodger. “I don’t think my contract would allow me to work with Netflix at once on a show but perhaps after we get done with The Artful Dodger.”
Mitchell noted that she currently has her “hands full” playing Lady Belle. She didn’t rule it out though considering the quantity of seasons still yet to air.
Based on Julia Quinn’s book series, each season of Bridgerton focuses on a unique member of the titular family as they attempt to search out love in Nineteenth-century London. The Netflix show is predicted to have eight seasons based on the eight novels written by Quinn about each Bridgerton sibling.
Dodd, for her part, plays Francesca and is predicted to steer either season 5 or 6. Mitchell, meanwhile, just returned to Hulu after a lengthy hiatus between seasons.
“It was a protracted painstaking wait to listen to [about a season 2], so we’re very completely satisfied to be back,” Mitchell noted to Us. “When it comes to jumping back into character, the break was good. It’s all the time nerve-wracking going back. Nevertheless it’s really easy with our sets and in our costumes, you simply really do melt right into the world. However the break was good because I might have needed that circuit break to search out a unique tone in her, to do some different prep. Especially with the dialect coaches, I used to be vocally dropping her slightly lower and there was a rather different physicality. Hopefully we get a season 3, and hopefully the break isn’t as long.”
Mitchell was thrilled at the possibility to film a project in her native Australia.
“At the top of 2021, I had written an inventory of things I used to be manifesting. It was a job that was shot in Australia, a period drama and it was a lady who was playing a feminist and claiming her power. That’s literally The Artful Dodger for me. So it’s a dream job,” she gushed. “And to give you the option to work from home is incredible. It’s less of a flight to go to family and our crew is so amazing. I’ve now shot a pair projects in Australia in the previous couple of years, since I’ve moved home — and in addition overseas — and I can say obviously that it’s the very best and most elevated work that I’ve been in a position to do.”
She concluded: “It’s due to the crew and everybody behind the camera and the solid. We now have such immense talent here and I’m so excited that the world is becoming aware about it because we’ve known it. We’ve all the time made such incredible shows but they’ve this Aussie tone with a gritty drama. Now we’re expanding that and we’ve got these massive period dramas with crazy budgets. It’s really fun to be an element of that form of recent moment in Aussie film and TV. So I couldn’t be more stoked and I might just work in Australia with Aussie crew for the remaining of my profession if I could. It’s the very best.”
Looking ahead, Mitchell expressed hope she would get to return to film more.
“There’s so much [more story] to inform,” Mitchell shared. “It’s such a large show with so many characters and so many plots happening unexpectedly.”
The actress noted that there’s “lots of opportunity” for “far more character development” in the longer term, adding, “With Belle and Jack, it’s seeing what domestic life could appear to be. I don’t know the way they pull that off. I don’t see them ever being settled but seeing what that appears like and seeing them actualize their relationship.”
Bridgerton returns with the second a part of season 4 on Thursday, February 26. The Artful Dodger is currently streaming on Hulu.