Louis Theroux

I wouldn't need to have any guests.

I'd just come on and speak to myself for an hour.

Indeed.

Basically, people love Bridgerton, and then there's a few who don't.

This kind of questions around the way race is handled, right?

Are you aware of this?

Because it projects a much happier version of...

onto the past, right?

There's people get along, there's no real racial prejudice in it.

There was a story in the New York Times from 2024, basically kind of giving the alternate view

saying it's a magical multiracial past.

Have you thought about that at all?

You wouldn't want that to give a false sense of actually how the past was.

There's this alternate version where actually increasing, especially post-2020, like, oh, we need more accountability for colonialism.

And we need stately homes to have sections where they're like, actually, it was the slave trade that made this possible.

So I guess there's a tension there.

I'm wondering, is that something you've spent any time thinking about?

About the show?

Yeah, right.

Like the pros and cons of that kind of fantasy.