If you thought the wigs of Bridgerton were already a royally impossible spectacle of hair artistry, star Golda Rosheuvel has revealed that she had to refuse even more elaborate ideas for sky-high pieces that the Netflix drama's creative team combed out for her.
The actress — who plays Queen Charlotte on the steamy Shonda Rhimes-produced series — made the revelation Friday on The View, after cohost and Bridgerton fan Sunny Hostin inquired about a recent wig that saw the character sporting "motorized swans," as the legal expert described it.
"Erika [Ökvist], our designer, an amazing human being, a talent beyond talent, her brain is so messed up with ideas. Some of the ideas I had to go, 'No! '" Rosheuvel said. "At one point, she wanted a boat — a full ship — on my head, and I was like, 'It's not going to work, babe.'"
Now that the show is in its third season, Rosheuvel further remembered that the hair team initially pitched the idea to incorporate motorized elements into her wigs roughly two years ago, and it took that long to clear the devices for usage, "because obviously there's health and safety" and they didn't "want it blowing up on my head or electrocuting me," she said with a laugh.
"Surprisingly, it's very light because one of the specifications that I had was that the battery pack ... couldn't be in the wig, so you have the plate that's quite light that the swans go around, and the wire goes down my back into the battery pack secured to my thigh," she explained of the mechanism the crew landed on.
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