- Drew Barrymore said watching the Netflix series "Bridgerton" led her to rejoin a dating app — adding: "I'm not dead. I'm not dead."
- "Bridgerton" star Regé-Jean Page joked with Barrymore on her talk show: "I didn't know that was the most that we were going to turn on, but we did it."
- Page and lead actress Phoebe Dynevor also revealed how they warned their families about the sex scenes or managed to watch the show together.
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Drew Barrymore said in an episode of her talk show that while watching Netflix's romantic period-drama series "Bridgerton," she returned to a dating app that she had seemingly stopped using or deleted.
"I got back on a dating app during 'Bridgerton.' I was like, 'I'm not dead. I'm not dead,'" Barrymore told the TV series' lead stars, Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor, in an episode of "The Drew Barrymore Show" that aired on Friday.
"Yes, Drew!" Dynevor applauded the host.
"I didn't know that was the most that we were going to turn on, but we did it," Page told Barrymore.
"For me, that was a big step," Barrymore told the actors. In the latter half of 2020, Barrymore alluded to not being interested in dating since she went through her third divorce in 2016.
The "Bridgerton" stars also told Barrymore about how their families reacted to the show's love scenes.
Page, who plays the show's mysterious Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, said that he alerted his family about love scenes in "Bridgerton" via a WhatsApp message. He said he typed red-colored siren emoji around names of episodes that included particularly steamy moments.
But he added that thanks to one British tradition, his family was prepared to watch the show.
"The Brits are very well-drilled for this as well," Page said, saying that members of his family left the room to prepare tea in anticipation of episodes' love scenes. "You just leave the room and put the kettle on."
Barrymore also asked Dynevor, who plays debutante Daphne Bridgerton, the oldest daughter of an elite family in London during the Regency era, to elaborate on how she managed to watch the series with her family members — including her grandparents.
Dynevor said the fast-forward function on her TV remote made it possible.
"I find it really hard to watch myself, but I had to if they were going to watch it, so I had to stand there with the remote at any given point to fast-forward," Dynevor told Barrymore. "We were good — we got through it."
Barrymore is far from the only fan to be swept off her feet by "Bridgerton." Netflix recently announced that more than 63 million households have watched "Bridgerton" since its debut on December 25, 2020. According to Variety, the show was the fifth-largest Netflix original series launch.
Produced by Shonda Rhimes, the first season of the series is adapted from "The Duke and I," a bestselling novel from the "Bridgerton" book series by Julia Quinn.
Catch up on more "Bridgerton" coverage from Insider here.
Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.
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