Bessie Carter says the boys in Bridgerton have common denominators.
The actress, 31, who is currently starring in Outrageous on Britbox, shares her thoughts on the swoonworthy brothers in the hit Netflix period drama during an episode of PEOPLE in 10.
When asked which of the Bridgerton brothers — Anthony, Benedict, Colin and Gregory — her Outrageous character Nancy Mitford would be the most likely to court, Carter says, “Oh my God. Well, she has a tendency to fall for the idiots. You know what I mean, like the [f—] boys.”
Continuing to draw parallels between the group, she adds, “The beautiful thing about all of the boys in Bridgerton is that they all start out by being kind of, like, caddish and naughty.”
Pinpointing exactly which sibling her character Nancy would most go for, Carter further explains that she would likely be drawn to Jonathan Bailey’s Lord Anthony Bridgerton. “Nancy would train him to be a husband, because he didn’t want to settle down,” she says.
Still, the star does think that Nancy would “probably get along with all of them.”
Carter, the only daughter of Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter, has portrayed Prudence Featherington since Bridgerton first premiered in 2020.
Alongside Bailey, 37, Luke Thompson, Luke Newton and Will Tilston make up the other Bridgerton brothers.
Carter’s latest project Outrageous is a six-episode series inspired by the true story of the aristocratic Mitford sisters from Britain in the 1930s.
“From fame to revolution, their lives took wildly different paths, but all were unapologetically bold,” a plot synopsis teases.
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Bessie Carter in ‘Bridgerton’
Carter tells PEOPLE the show’s themes connect to modern life, because the sisters at the heart of the series “were women who were living in a culture and in a society and in a time where they were rarely allowed to be educated [and] they were rarely allowed to have a proper profession. They were only valued if they were marriable, and they couldn’t be financially independent.”
Describing how the women rejected the oppressive ideology, she continues, “They went to the places that they were listened to, and those places ended up being pretty extreme places.”
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Bessie Carter attends the ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ screening on Feb. 12, 2025 in New York City.
Carter adds that the series is “symbolic of the greater world right now that we live in,” stating that there are “so many disillusioned people who are not feeling heard and not feeling represented.”
“If we don’t give them a voice, a place where they feel safe and listened to and education — all of that going back to their human rights — they will go to places where they feel valued,” she says.
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Carter compared Bridgerton and Outrageous in a previous interview with PEOPLE, describing the latter as “so punky and fast-paced and funny.”
“And there’s an energy to the way it’s shot, which I think is our tempo, which was their tempo. I mean, they were eccentric,” she added of the show.
“It sort of veers away from the Bridgerton larger-than-life period drama thing,” Carter added. “It’s very authentic to the time.”
Outrageous is streaming now on BritBox.
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