Queen Charlotte star first met with the show's hair and makeup team, she cried. Not because the actor, who plays the elder, Regency-era version of the titular royal on the hit , had concerns about the level of craftsmanship or the treatment of her natural hair.
It was because she felt seen.“I remember…being really really shocked, actually, that they wanted to just tease my own hair out and have that as the front line of the wig,” the actor said . “Those words and that kind of discussion, of showing my own natural hair within a character’s look, had never ever been discussed with me.
So, I got so emotional and I cried because it was such a moment of I’m being seen not only as an actress, as a person of color, but this character is being seen through these ideas—hair and makeup and costume, and how the show looks.”For Nic Collins, the Netflix series' hair and makeup head, the most important thing from the beginning—from the moment she took the project on—was ensuring that textured hair was truly and thoughtfully represented. “The initial conversations were about giving a true representation in the Queen Charlotte world, under the Bridgerverse as they call it,” she tells Glamour. “And the period is perfect for it.
I never felt like we were going too far from it.”As it turns out, wigs in the Georgian period, when young Charlotte's story takes place, were actually textured—but then again, Bridgerton has never worried itself on being historically accurate.
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