Zawe Ashton and the Power of Upending Period Pieces

The email Zawe Ashton sent her team was short and to the point. “I’ve just watched Bridgerton,” she wrote, “get me in a corset ASAP.” It had been during a particularly bleak period of lockdown, when Ashton was in Toronto filming The Handmaid’s Tale, that she first tuned into the hit Netflix period drama and saw a familiar face. “I had met Regé-Jean Page 10 years ago when he had a non-speaking part on [the series] Fresh Meat, and we just got on really well,” she explains over coffee and croissants in the Plaza Hotel’s Oak Room. “I could just… Read Full Article