Quotes from Rege-Jean Page

I used to be in music, in a punk band in my teens. It was very teenage of me, I wanted to find a way to be loud and angry and righteous and that seemed the most productive way to do so.

You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there's understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things aren't real until you can feel that, until you can empathize with them. That's what protagonists do in books.

When I got involved in the punk scene, my notion of what a career was changed. I realized that a career in the arts was actually about having the people and community to support you making your art.

One day I can be a spaceman, the next day I can be president, the day after that I can travel 200 years into the past. It's this really freeing profession.

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

'Roots' was a massive responsibility because it is this foundational text in the States and it also resonates fairly strongly with pretty much any black community globally.

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

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.

I've been involved in more Georgian period duels than I ever thought I would in my life.

'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 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 have a theory that I'm always hungry when I do interviews, as I always talk about food.

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.

The fight that needs to be won is over that false pride before you can discover the vulnerability that allows you to unlock all the good stuff that does actually make you attractive, hopefully.

Romance is a wonderful thing and we need more of it in the world.

I think one of the bravest things about the romance genre is allowing people a happy ending.

Intimate scenes are like dance rehearsals - it's all choreography.

I'd been acting as a hobby since I got to the U.K.

I'm a huge fan of romance as a concept.

I played a ton of Diablo' as a teenager, so I'm used to the fact that I play a paladin - that's just what I do, and I know what that means, to a degree.

If that executive at the top of the studio had seen more stories with all the people they don't relate to, they may be able to relate to them better, particularly if those stories are of a higher quality.

The idea of romantic heroes - When you say the word hero,' it implies it's someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton' about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.