Bridgerton actor Corey Mylchreest, who performed King George / Farmer George within the spin-off present is about to star in a steamy Netflix drama set in Oxford College alongside Sofia Carson
Netflix heard our calls for for a return of Bridgerton‘s King George and, this summer season, they’ve promised to ship. Recognized for his dreamy function as King George in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Corey Mylchreest is about to return to our screens in a brand new Netflix romcom set in Oxford. Corey will act because the charming love curiosity of our educational goals.
My Oxford 12 months will star the gifted Sofia Carson because the American lead Anna. Following Anna to Oxford for her British dream of learning at Oxford College, viewers can fall as deeply in love with the witty Jamie – and sure, he’s nonetheless simply as good-looking as he was a Farmer George.
Popping out August 1, the movie ensures us the summer season romance we have been craving. The present was directed by BAFTA nominee Iain Morris, famed author of British cult traditional, The Inbetweeners. Sofia, who’s additionally performing as an government producer for the brand new Netflix providing, praised Iain, telling Netflix Tudum: “Comedy is his language, so his imaginative and prescient of this movie superbly created a timeless, heart-breaking, sweeping romance, grounded in laughter”.
And while an intense love story from inside the partitions of Oxford’s halls won’t be the fun-filled fling Netflix viewers favor, Sofia insists that while “you might fall head over heels in love, you might cry” in a single scene, Iain “will at all times be certain that the enjoyment of laughter is current”.
Solely the second of Sofia’s productions, after 2022’s hit Purple Hearts, this bookish romance “steeped in literature and poetry” is an ideal match for #Booktok lovers.
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Calling her function an honour to “stroll the halls of Oxford,” Sofia quoted poet Alfred Tennyson. “It’s higher to have beloved and misplaced, than by no means to have beloved in any respect” – 200 years after Tennyson so superbly uttered these phrases, they ring more true than ever — within the halls of Oxford, and inside the coronary heart of our movie” she shared, affirming the muse of the undertaking was “the assumption that life is just too quick to not dwell it in love, in pleasure”.
Additionally a fan of the Bridgerton spin-off, the actress claimed she knew Corey could be her Jamie from the start. Opening up concerning the instantaneous sparks throughout their chemistry learn, she recalled: “I watched Queen Charlotte in awe of Corey. He’s a rare drive of an actor. I at all times knew it will be Corey. As quickly as he walked into the room for our chemistry learn in London, Anna and Jamie got here to life. Immediately”.
Corey’s shut connection to the movie comes from his private ‘Oxford yr’. A born-and-bred Londoner, Mylchreest informed Tudum: “I’ve a pal that studied for uni[versity] in Oxford, and so there was a interval of my life the place I used to be going up and getting the practice to Oxford fairly regularly”.
Having fun with what the celebrated world of Oxford needed to provide, Corey’s familiarity with the placement was the polar reverse of his co-star, who opted to save lots of her recent eyes for filming. Carson admitted that she purposefully abstained from exploring the historic landmarks as she “needed to save lots of [her] sincere response to witnessing the magic of Oxford for the primary time, for as soon as the cameras had been rolling”.
With the discharge of Jurassic Park, starring Jonathan Bailey – ceaselessly our Anthony – and the filming of Bridgerton’s Season 4 concluding in April, predicted to launch between later this yr and 2026, it’s clear to see that Netflix’s viewers can not get sufficient of the Bridgerton forged.
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