"luke and nicola did not know the morning of that i was filming it that i would do that but they got such a charge out of it, they loved it, not knowing that was going to happen. before i brought everyone else in for the rest of the scene i said, they were wondering why it was just the two of them, i was like we're going to do this first. and they were like "OH MY GOD!" and the spontaneity of that is my part and it feeds the actors and their stories and layers of emotions they hadn't rehearsed and they just let themselves go in that moment." : tom verica (director of bridgerton s3e07 and s03e08)