It's been a huge year for Jonathan Bailey, and the Emmy-nominated star is proving that he worked hard as hell to earn it!
In 2024, Bailey was nominated for his first-ever Emmy for his role in the gay historical mini-series Fellow Travelers, and is currently starring in Wicked, the number one movie in the world. Oh, and he also filmed a new season of Bridgerton, and he did it all simultaneously.
Bailey proved that he's the ultimate versatile king when he revealed in an interview that he shot the three projects at the same time, sometimes flying back and forth to film different projects.
Despite the roles having different accents, different hair, and even different sexualities, he was able to handle all three at once.
"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," he revealed to The Hollywood Reporter. "I'd go from Hawk's house in the '60s at the cabin [in Fellow Travelers], 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."
(L-R) Jonathan Bailey on Fellow Travelers; on Bridgerton; in Wicked: Part IShowtime; Netflix; Universal Pictures
"And at that point, I was so late in joining the Wicked lot, because they'd already started filming, and that was also incredible for [producer] Marc Platt to make that work," he continued. "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."
All this work did take its toll, Bailey said, mainly on his hair.
"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]," he revealed. "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."
