The man behind Anthony Bridgerton talks punctuality, watches, and scuba-diving
What’s important to Jonathan Bailey? Punctuality. “I'm far too worried about letting people down to be late,” he explains, sitting opposite me in a suite in Heckfield Place, a grand estate in the Hampshire countryside. “Working on set and especially being an actor, sometimes you're not told if you’re late; people are too scared to. So I'm hyper, hyper vigilant. The older I get the more it feels like so much time has been wasted worrying about being late.
The 35-year-old actor has travelled here – in good time, naturally – to host a dinner celebrating the Omega Seamaster’s 75th anniversary, his first bit of ambassadorial duty since taking on the role in April. Dining in a Georgian manor down the road from Jane Austen’s house, it's easy to make comparisons to the lodgings of one of Bailey’s most famous fictional roles: English nobleman Anthony Bridgerton . One of his character's most prized possessions is his father's pocket watch, and Bailey shares that familial relationship with timepieces, too.
While many have come to know Bailey as the lead in the show’s second season – it’s Netflix’s most popular English-language TV series, accruing 627.11 million hours of watch time in four weeks, bumping season one to second place – Bailey's career started in childhood.at nine years old, and moved into TV in his twenties with detective drama
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