For Golda Rosheuvel, Queen Charlotte’s hair is a beautiful result of care and skill behind the camera — something she had yet to experience in her long career before Bridgerton. “On our first meeting, [Bridgerton makeup and hair designer Erika Ökvist] made me cry,” Rosheuvel tells me over Zoom from London during a packed press day for the cast. “Because it was the first time that I had been in conversation with a head of a department of that calibre — or anybody — discussing the fact that she was going to incorporate my own hair into the looks and that it was very important for her to deal with different Black textures to really celebrate my Blackness through the wigs of Queen Charlotte.” Rosheuvel is getting a bit emotional. “Nobody had ever had those conversations with me as an artist, a Black artist.” Rosheuvel says she and Ökvist are very collaborative. “[We have] conversations of how we incorporate [different] textures, you know, dreadlocks, plaited hair, curly kinks, all of that kind of stuff. She was really focused on doing that for me and the character.”