Thanks to her brilliant performance as the adored character, the Bridgerton universe actress has captured the hearts of viewers.

Standing tall and proud, they both steal scenes with their subtle performances and are sure to turn heads wherever they go.

Surprisingly, Arsema Thomas and Adjoa Andoh, who played Lady Agatha Danbury in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, a Netflix original series, never rehearsed to mimic one other’s speaking patterns or mannerisms.

“This is your character,” the show’s director told 28-year-old Thomas, who uses the pronouns she or they, according to PEOPLE. “You do what you want with it,” she said, getting ready to narrate the narrative of Lady Danbury’s youth.

In her own words, she “came in just being what I thought this character should be” at the audition because she had never seen Bridgerton before. It also happens to be rather close to how Adjoa perceives this character, for some reason.

Thomas realized they shared commonalities on their first Zoom chat with the British actress, who became a fan favorite as Lady Danbury in Bridgerton’s first two seasons.

There were books on her shelf that I happened to have on mine in the backdrop of her video. Assata Shakur’s (a civil rights activist) autobiography was the subject. It was a remarkable compilation of Black Panthers’ revolutionary art from the 1970s in the United States. All of these things, as Thomas remembers, were nonverbal signs of how well our ideals agreed.

“The eccentricities came naturally. Since we are both Nigerian, I can’t say if the difference is cultural. She is Ghanian. “Those traits may show up similarly because they originate from our dads,” she goes on to say. “I don’t know but the mannerisms were something that we didn’t have to speak about at all.”

Thomas’s first significant part is Queen Charlotte’s Lady Danbury, which is hard to imagine. The Atlanta-born actor only completed his training in theater a year ago. Keeping that in mind, it’s easy to see why the Bridgerton prequel’s filmmaker described the experience as “surreal.”

Every day, I felt like this couldn’t be my life, yet it was one of the greatest privileges I’ve ever had, Thomas says. To be honest, I never imagined I could do everything I set out to do. Getting up, going to sets, getting into my hair and makeup, practicing my lines for the day, etc., etc., was simply my way of keeping myself firmly planted on the ground.

Just looking at Twitter makes it quite evident that the aristocrat’s sex life has been the center of curiosity for fans of Lady Danbury ever since Thomas makes his movie debut. We see the younger version of the heroine gazing out into space while Lord Danbury, played by Cyril Nri, passionately makes out with her.

She jumped into a hot, steaming bath afterwards, which says a lot, and her disassociated face doesn’t show any joy either. Despite its comic intent, the sex scene nonetheless need the services of intimacy trainers.

They were incredible because, as Thomas puts it, Cyril and I were both quite fresh to this area. Cyril mentioned how nice it was to be in an environment with an intimacy coordinator, because he had never been in one before.

As Thomas points out, the woman finally breaks “herself from what society thinks of her” and “what she thinks of herself” during her affair with Lord Ledger.

All of this helps shape the wise widow Lady Danbury that Bridgerton viewers adore as she ages. If you ask Thomas to sum her up in three words, he’ll respond, “Revolutionary, strategic, loving.”