Why Tunji Kasim Compares Queen Charlotte to Harry & Meghan

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The communicative of Queen Charlotte proves everything aged is caller again.

In the Bridgerton prequel bid Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story—which dropped May 3 connected Netflix—viewers get to spot the aboriginal beingness of Golda Rosheuvel's esteemed royal, with India Amarteifio playing the younger mentation of the monarch.

While taking a look astatine the origins of Charlotte's reign, the bid explores large themes of class, wealthiness and contention wrong the monarchy. In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Tunji Kasim, who plays Charlotte's member Adolphus, explained however it each intersects.

"That is precise overmuch what drives the show: The characters, the people, their interior lives, their interior emotions," helium revealed. "But of course, there's a speech to beryllium had astir ethnicity and the societal dynamic that introduces to peculiar characters and however they person to navigate that. That's decidedly a world for Queen Charlotte entering into this precise achromatic British royal household world."

Sound familiar?

"It's fantastic to spot that connected screen. It's fantastic to person a speech astir that," Tunji continued. "It's particularly applicable successful the past fewer months fixed the Prince [Harry] and [Meghan Markle] concern that's going connected successful Britain. Navigating specified an institution—such a predominantly Caucasian institution, and proudly so—Queen Charlotte having to navigate that is precise overmuch beforehand and halfway wrong this story."

As for the anticipation that Harry and Meghan mightiness beryllium down and binge Queen Charlotte similar the remainder of us, the Nancy Drew alum was hopeful, saying, "I'm definite they're Bridgerton fans."

Still, Tunji insisted the bid isn't immoderate ripped-from-the-headlines effort astatine relevancy.

"It's precise organically done," helium noted. "It doesn't consciousness similar it's connected a soap container preaching by immoderate means. It's conscionable showing her acquisition and what she benignant of went through."

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See it for yourself as Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is disposable to watercourse present connected Netflix.

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