Jonathan Bailey Talks Filming 'Wicked,' 'Fellow Travelers' & 'Bridgerton' Simultaneously (& How it Affected His Hair)
Jonathan Bailey opened up about the challenges of filming three big projects at the same time.
The 36-year-old actor has been keeping busy for a while now. However, his schedule hit a fever pitch when he was in production for Wicked, Bridgerton and Fellow Travelers.
The latter earned him his first Emmy nomination, and Wicked is on track to be one of the biggest movies of the year. However, in a recent interview, Jonathan explained how keeping so busy affected him. Spoiler alert: It was really bad for his hair!
Keep reading to find out more…
“I think it was 32 days in a row where I didn’t have one day off. And I flew back and forth four times. I’d go from Hawk’s house in the ‘60s at the cabin, go straight to the airport, sleep on the plane, go straight to a regency ball, sleep there, then go straight to Wicked to be learning choreography,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “And at that point, I was so late in joining the Wicked lot, because they’d already started filming, and that also was incredible for Marc Platt to make that work. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of trying to work out the priorities of whether you have to learn the choreography today, or work on your American accent, or pelt your hair ready for another Bridgerton snog.”
Jonathan said that he “probably wouldn’t rush into doing that again.”
“But I would say that I was quite good at rolling all the way through and then at the end, I had a five-day holiday, and my hair had died from all the the perming and straightening, because I had to perm my hair for Bridgerton and straighten my hair for [Fellow Travelers]. I was like a teenage beauty advert, doing everything to my hair. I remember going on this holiday and I got to the beach, I sat down in the sun, and my hair was just like floating, whisping off, like breaking away. And I looked completely and felt completely insane,” he recalled.
If you missed it, Jonathan recently opened up about wearing a prosthetic member for Fellow Travelers. He also confirmed some very exciting news about another project.