’s Charithra Chandran revealed the ‘painful’ impact colourism had on her while growing up and branded the ordeal as ‘traumatising.’
, Lady Danbury welcomes the Sharma family – sisters Kate (Simone Ashley) and Edwina (Charithra), along with their mother Lady Mary (Shelley Conn) – who travel to from India to take part in the social festivities.
However, things take a turn for the Scan**lous when both sisters have their eye on the dashing Lord Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey).
Season two was lauded with praise after fans take centre stage, however, Charithra, 25, remembers struggling to accept the colour of her skin growing up.
Gracing the cover of , the star explained: ‘When the sun is shining and I tan, my instinct is like, ‘oh f**k, I tanned.’
‘I’m trying to unlearn it. It’s going to be a lifelong struggle.’
Charithra admitted that she still feels tempted to heavily edit her pictures on Instagram, because of the harmful message she internalised growing up.
‘It’s really, really traumatizing. I just desperately don’t want that for my cousins,’ she added.
Ahead of the season two launch, the actress people who were living in the UK during the Regency era.
‘Obviously, Bridgerton is in a fantasy world’ she said.
‘And it’s just a carnival of joy and we don’t address England’s difficult past with India, but we are so intrinsically linked, the two countries.’
While actress Adjoa Andoh was touched by as her notable character.
Speaking to the Mirror, she said: ‘I can’t tell you how touched I have been to see the little Black girls posting photos of themselves in a Regency dress, dressed up like princesses.’
‘You kind of go, “oh these children are going to grow up feeling like they have a place” – not like they are being tolerated,’ she added.
Bridgerton is available to stream on Netflix.
