When the openly gay “Bridgerton” star Golda Rocheville — who plays the gossip-loving Queen Charlotte on the Netflix series — began her acting career, a lesbian director told her she should stay in the closet.
Rosheuvel told me on this week’s episode of “Just for diversePodcast.” Podcasting.” And the absolute refusal was: “You absolutely shouldn’t do that. It could or would ruin your career as an actor. I’d rather lose a job than not be honest with who I am now. I’d rather not work in an industry that doesn’t accept me.” … It wasn’t about the way I grew up. And then I came up as a director, as a lesbian director, I was like, ‘I don’t understand this advice.’ It just blew my mind.”
Rocheville, who was mostly known as a stage actress in the UK before Bridgerton gave her star a royal boost, will be in New York City Saturday night for the Human Rights Campaign gala, where she will be honored by the LGBTQ civil rights organization. This year’s equality award. “I’m on the outside and proud,” she says. “My sex life is really important to me in terms of existence, knowing that I am. I am as important as anyone on this planet. Do you know what I mean? My partner [writer Shireen Mula] He always says, “Just the fact that you’re on screen. Just the fact that you’re in ‘Bridgerton’ as a black lesbian, biracial, one-sexed one playing England’s first black queen. The fact that you’re there is massive.”
She spoke to Rosheuvel over Zoom video from the UK when she returned home after spending the day filming the original Queen Charlotte’s Story series: “It’s important to me to be out there and be proud and to make things natural for that one person, that little boy or girl or Transgender or non-binary [person] To be able to say, “I’m not alone.”
What do you think when a human rights campaign releases a press release and they call you a role model?
I’m pround of it. I have worked hard in my life. It wasn’t always easy. I am really proud of who I am and what I do in my heart, in my soul. So other people seeing that and tapping into that empowerment, and feeling the belief in themselves, is amazing, it’s amazing.
Let’s talk Bridgeton. Have they ever come to you with one of your outfits and you’re like, “WTF? How am I going to wear that? How is this going to sit on my head?”
There was only one moment in it [hairstylist] Erica [Ökvist] It was like – I think it was for one of the balls – “I see this boat.” And I said, “Okay…” And then I made it and it was pretty big, Mark. It was silly. And we’ve really talked about paying as much as we can, you know what I mean? As with every look, we were like, “Can we push it away?” And we got away with a lot of them, but this is what I was like, “I think we pushed it a little too hard. Impossible to wear.”
Those wigs look really heavy. are they?
The balls are very heavy because they have to be completely stationary and not move, but I prefer this all year round, sure, because I was in a dialogue this time. It was more of a collaboration with the new team, so we were able to discuss what worked, what didn’t, and I had a lot of setup and was able to say, “We need to look at this in a different way because it’s so heavy.”
Does your contract provide for a neck massage?
I keep fit. Body strength is really important because you hold yourself in a different way than you normally would. And to do this for long periods of time for the sake of shooting, it can affect the body. I check my spine, my neck, all that stuff. I train several times a week and eat healthy food before shooting. So do corsets. To be pushed into a tiny little space for long periods of time, our bodies aren’t used to that kind of thing. I don’t know how they did it in the eighteenth century. I have no idea how they did it.
When did you find out that there would be a branch of your own?
We were filming season two and I got an email about a big meeting that afternoon. I was like, “Oh my God. Are we all fired?” Then I got a call saying that Shonda [Rhimes] There will be, Betsy [Beers] There will be the entire crew. We were told several things at the same time. This was one of them we were told. It took a while to go, “Oh, OK. That’s interesting. Right. OK. Am I into it? Who does what? Shonda writing it? Oh my God. OK. It’s Netflix approved.” And then we started filming it.
There is a younger me, there is a younger Danbury, there is a younger Brimsley, and there is a younger king. and huh [Sachs]who plays Brimsley, and I, we were on set that day and India [Amareifio] Wissam [Clemmett]- India plays Queen Charlotte, Sam plays Brimsley – and we were standing in the doorway and they were about to finish, and Sam was standing exactly the same way on my right side, on India’s right side, and I was standing on the left. And Hugh and I looked [eachother] And he was like, ‘That’s cool. This is just a beautiful moment.’ Like the transition to the next generation of actors and to the following storylines for these characters. It was truly an empowering moment for us as veteran actors. You only see these cool, cool guys stepping into these roles. I was really proud. It was really a proud moment.
If you could have a real royal figure in Bridgeton, who would you want it to appear as a cameo?
I think the Queen would be very exciting. The real living queen. who else? I think William would actually do well. I think he’ll be up for a good time.
I think William would be fine, but I think Harry would do it with Queen Charlotte.
Oh yes! It would be great. Absolutely.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. You can listen to the full interview on “Just for Variety” above, at Apple Podcast Or wherever you find your favorite podcast.
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