Despite all the nookie and nudity, though, Dynevor insists it’s never “gratuitous,” instead calling all those sex scenes “essential to Daphne’s journey as a woman and finding her sexuality.” One of the ways the Shonda Rhimes-produced Netflix show, based on the novels by Julia Quinn, flips the genre is with its abundance of explicit sex between Daphne Bridgerton ( Phoebe Dynevor) and her husband Simon, Duke of Hastings ( Regé-Jean Page).
The Jane Austen-inspired romance Bridgerton might seem like a conventional, even prudish, period piece-until you start actually watching it, that is.