Hannah Dodd is on the cover of the August issue of Harper’s Bazaar Australia! In the new interview, the actress talks about Bridgerton, fashion, dancing, life, and more. You can check it bellow and the photoshoot in our gallery:

IT WAS not long into the filming of the latest series of Bridgerton when the new girl on set became distressed. Preparing for the scene in which her debutante character is presented to the queen, Hannah Dodd felt weeks of anxiety boil over. Could she do this? Could she go on?

This was July 2022. Just two months earlier, landing a role on Shondaland’s zeitgeist Netflix series had seemed like the gift of a lifetime to the unassuming English actor. The first two seasons of the lavish, history-bending Regency-era romantic drama had garnered huge audiences and turned its leads into stars. On learning she would be taking over the part of Francesca Bridgerton, Dodd had gone straight to work, perusing the Julia Quinn novels on which the series is based and learning piano, one of Francesca’s more conspicuous skills.

By the time filming started, however, the insidious process that converts excitement into crippling self-doubt had done its thing. And on this day — when her alter ego was to be paraded before Queen Charlotte, judged and appraised less as a sensitive young woman than an object — the newcomer unravelled. “I’d been so nervous for so long, and I think I’d hit the point where I couldn’t actually sustain feeling like that,” Dodd says.

Fortunately, the Bridgerton cast and crew are, by all accounts, a supportive bunch, and Dodd’s turmoil did not go unnoticed. Picking her moment, one of the producers approached her and suggested they take a stroll.

“She said to me, ‘To us, this is still the tiny little show we were making back in 2019, and it’s the same people’,” Dodd recalls.

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Hannah Dodd is on the cover of the Summer edition of Who What Wear UK, where she talks about her hole as Francesca Bridgerton, her family and more! Check bellow the complete interview and the photoshoot in our gallery:

A person only needs to spend a few minutes with Hannah Dodd to know that she takes her work and craft very seriously. In my 13 years as a journalist, I have met and profiled many celebrities and creatives, and in many instances, the talent is on time and ready to get going. It’s either that, or they’re running seriously late. However, I can say with absolute certainty that no one I’ve interviewed has ever been early—no one except for Hannah Dodd.

We meet, as often happens these days, via Zoom, with our call scheduled for 10 a.m. As part of my pre-interview ritual, I log on 15 minutes early to ensure the link works and my background looks professional, read my questions aloud and prime my recorder. It’s 9:49 a.m. when Dodd dials into the call. “Oh, hello,” she beams. “I didn’t think anyone would be on here yet—it’s great to meet you! I’m Hannah.” We exchange pleasantries until everyone else who needs to be on the call dials in (on time, I might add). In those extra few minutes together, I already get the impression that Dodd is grateful to be here—by which I don’t mean on a video call with me, though she does seem genuinely delighted with this, too. I mean here, at this moment in her life and career. She’ll later tell me she feels “lucky” and that “the stars aligned” to help her reach this place. Me? I have a sneaking suspicion that luck has nothing to do with it.

She’s dialling in from her home in London, the exposed red brickwork in the background going some way to confirm this. Behind her is a kitchen and a table upon which a Netflix gift bag and a bottle of Glossier’s You perfume sits. Dodd looks radiant—skin dewy, cheeks flushed and hair loose and naturally tousled. She wears a black T-shirt with a small scribe of white letters written across the chest, which I can’t quite make out. On the surface, she might seem like a very typical, freshly-turned 29-year-old—fun, bubbly, bright—but, let’s face it, she’s not your average 20-something. Dodd has become one of the most recognisable faces of 2024 since joining the cast of Netflix’s record-smashing regency series Bridgerton. Our meeting comes a few weeks before the third season debuts to a global audience, and you’ll probably be reading this on the day of (or very near to) the premiere of the season’s final four episodes. Now, weeks later, it’s interesting to reflect on our conversation. In doing so, I get the feeling that the reality of what was about to unfold for her hadn’t quite sunk in. Whilst it’s always tempting to skip to the end and read a final chapter, I find the most fulfilling stories unfurl when you’re invested from the beginning. That’s where I guide our conversation.

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Here’s a second post of more interviews that Hannah Dodd gave during the Bridgerton S3 press tour:

Hannah Dodd is on the digital cover of the summer edition of Elle Nederland! In the interview, Hannah talks about her role in Bridgerton, as well how she felt accepting the part, her hobbies and more. You can check the photoshoot in our gallery and the interview bellow. PS: Since the interview is in dutch and I don’t speak it, I had to translate it on google translate. So, I’m sorry if there are any errors!

When it is announced in May 2022 that Hannah Dodd would take over the role of Francesca Bridgerton from Ruby Stokes, she shared the news on Instagram with the caption: ‘Terrified. I’m going to do my best, I promise.’ Almost two years later, she seems to have made the role completely her own and she plays the piano as easily and moves as effortlessly in Regency dresses as she skips carefree through the lawn of Parc Broekhuizen during the shoot.

Do you still find it as scary as it was two years ago?
‘I remember being so nervous when I got the part. But as soon as I walked onto the set, I noticed that everyone was very warm and welcomed me. You keep that nervousness a bit, but that helps too. It keeps you on your toes. We shot the scene where you see Francesca for the first time in season 3 on the second day. The whole family looks for her while she quietly plays the piano in Bridgerton House, and Johnny (Jonathan Bailey, ed) had to fight back from laughing when he heard me play and at the same time had to say how good it sounded. The ice was broken immediately.’

So you’re not a piano virtuoso like Francesca?
“Not even a little. I did take piano lessons, but I only learned the pieces, rather than actually learning to read and play music. My piano teacher didn’t understand how I played without looking at the music, but it’s kind of like dancing with your fingers. I expected to remember those dances as a fun party trick, but as soon as we finished the scene I forgot about the piece again.’

You are a trained dancer. Are we going to see you in your element on screen?
‘Bridgerton wouldn’t be Bridgerton without a big ball or two. We discussed whether Francesca is a good dancer or not. I see her as a very diligent student, someone who works hard to be good. Whether that’s dancing or playing the piano, or when she enters the marriage market and has to find a husband.’

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Hannah Dodd gave an interview recently to Elle Magazine where she talks about playing Francesca in the third season of Bridgerton, her relationship with Ruby Stokes and much more. Check the interview bellow as well a new promotional photoshoot for Netflix:

Hannah Dodd likes to say that she shares Francesca Bridgerton with Ruby Stokes. After Stokes originated the character in the first two seasons of the hit Regency-era romantic drama Bridgerton, Dodd has taken over the coveted role of the sixth Bridgerton sibling for the show’s highly anticipated third installment, the first half of which is now streaming on Netflix.

“Francesca is such a gorgeous character that it takes two people to get to tell her story, but I’m not trying to erase the fact that Ruby played her first,” Dodd tells ELLE.com on a recent video call from her flat in London. “I think we had a little chat when [my casting] announcement came out, and we were always liking each other’s stuff [on Instagram]. I congratulated her on her job; she congratulated me on my job. So it’s really lovely to share this with her.”

Dodd, by her own admission, was not expecting to audition again for Bridgerton. In the spring of 2022, Dodd—who had been in the running three years earlier to play Phoebe Dynevor’s character, Daphne Bridgerton—responded to a confidential casting call. The title and character name were clearly being kept a secret, but Dodd remembers self-taping a scene about a maiden at a ball.

It wasn’t until months later that Dodd learned, on the day of her Zoom meeting with Bridgerton producers, that she was a frontrunner to play Francesca. “I had no time to prepare in any way, so I just had to listen to what it was that they wanted and respond. It meant that I didn’t go in with any sort of preconceived ideas, which is a completely different way of working. Normally, I like to prep and really be ready,” she says, admitting that the experience was oddly “freeing,” if a little intimidating.

Dodd learned that she had landed the part at a family party, the day after her father’s wedding. “My agent had lied to me. He had said that I was going to go in again the week after because he knew that I was at a wedding, and I’d [otherwise] be thinking about it the whole time,” she recalls. Her agent decided to call only if there was even more cause for celebration—and indeed, there was. “I had loads of family and friends there, and it was the last day before my sister went back to Australia, so it meant that we got to have that moment [together], which was really nice.”

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Hannah Dodd is the cover of the new edition of YOU Magazine where she talks about getting her role in Bridgerton, life before acting and more! You can check the interview bellow and the photos in our gallery:

Imagine doing audition after audition for a role in Bridgerton, only to lose out in a gut-wrenching final round. Imagine watching it turn into one of Netflix’s biggest shows while you remain stuck in an admin job, juggling spreadsheets.

And then finding out there’s a juicy part waiting for you in the third season after all. You could say it’s all been a lot for Hannah Dodd to take in.

‘I felt like a competition winner being taken around the set,’ the 28-year-old actress says about joining the period drama as Francesca, the shyest of the aristocratic Bridgerton siblings. ‘I thought I’d stepped into my TV screen.’ With her wide almond eyes, Dodd reminds me of a young Kate Moss, albeit from sleepy Colchester instead of gritty Croydon.

She twirls around the photo studio in bright yellow Louis Vuitton (she’s had dance training since the age of two). ‘Oh yeah, get that ballet out,’ she says, stretching her leg at an extraordinary angle while poised on a chair in huge heels. She winces. ‘My muscles are like, “Ain’t done this in a while!’’’

These are Dodd’s first steps inside the Bridgerton hit factory. The series is made by Shonda Rhimes, the American creator of Grey’s Anatomy, who signed up to make shows exclusively for Netflix for a reported £115 million in 2017. But Bridgerton still surprised everyone when it smashed the streaming giant’s record in 2020 for its most watched English-language drama.

Two years later, it broke its own record. Season three is out this month.

The show is also a star maker. Set in the 19th-century court of the fictional English Queen Charlotte, it is based on the novels by Julia Quinn and focuses on the eight Bridgerton siblings as they enter a London society dominated by Lady Whistledown, the anonymous gossip columnist.

The racy first season transformed the lives of Regé-Jean Page, who played the Duke of Hastings, and Phoebe Dynevor, who was Daphne Bridgerton, his love interest. Both were relatively unknown, two alumni of BBC One’s teen drama Waterloo Road. However, 12 sex scenes and 113 million viewers later, both became global names.

The same Bridgerton magic was sprinkled on the careers of Simone Ashley (Kate Sharma) and Jonathan Bailey (Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton) in the second season. This third season centres on Nicola Coughlan (Penelope Featherington), but the guaranteed fan favourite? Hannah Dodd.

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With only 6 days until the release of the first part of ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3, numerous of interviews of Hannah and her castmates have been released! You can check all of them, so far, bellow:

The first interview for the Bridgerton Season 3 press tour is here! Hannah Dodd, alongside Claudia Jessie and Jessica Madsen talk with People Magazine en Español about their characters in the show’s new season. Check it out:

New photoshoot for our girl! Hannah is one of the cover girls of Rollacoaster Magazine’s Winter 2022/23 Issue! She was photographed by Rhys Framptom. You can check the photoshoot pictures in our gallery and excerpts from the interview bellow:

“In 10 years time, I really hope I’m still doing this and still enjoy doing this. I want to get over my imposter syndrome and prove to myself that I deserve to be here. I think that’s the main goal: being here but a more confident version.”

“I feel like my career has happened really slowly. There’s no ladder to this industry, you can’t climb the ranks with promotions like normal jobs. But I think I have been climbing up one in terms of my own experience. I’ve taken one step at a time, which in retrospect was so nice because it meant I could cope with the changes. I have massive empathy for people who get thrust into the spotlight, it’s not something I have ever experienced and I don’t think I could cope with that. I think my career is still happening quite slowly, but I think that’s actually good because, at every step of the way, I can asses, ‘Okay, what do you need to learn now?’”

Hannah is featured in the newest edition of The Italian Rêve Magazine, an idependent online amagzine. Photographed by Johnny Carrano, she looks amazing in all the photos in the article. Hannah gave as well an incredible interview where she talks about playing Francesca Bridgerton in the upcoming “Bridgerton” seasons, her preparations for the role, as well about Enola Holmes, dance, and much more. You can check all the photos from the photoshoot in our gallery and the interview and a behind the scenes video bellow: