Bridgerton 2 actor Charithra Chandran spoke about how colourism affected her life. "I remember strangers saying, 'You'd be pretty if you were light-skinned like your grandmother'," she said. "[They were] trying to blame my granddad for giving me my skin colour," she added. "I've...had friends say to me, 'Oh you got [success] because you're brown'...that really hurts," Charithra said.