{"id":35078,"date":"2026-03-10T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35078"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:21:36","slug":"987fm-dj-sonia-chew-reveals-she-auditioned-for-bridgerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35078","title":{"rendered":"987FM DJ Sonia Chew reveals she auditioned for Bridgerton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Despite some initial misgivings, Chew eventually proceeded with the audition and submitted \u201csome headshots\u201d and told the production crew \u201ca bit of [herself]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then came the challenge,&#8221; she quipped, which saw her then having to record an introduction in RP.<\/p>\n<p>It worked out well for Chew, who then received a callback and was asked to read lines from the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was when the panic set in,&#8221; said Chew.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scripts were in and I just cringe when I watch it,&#8221; she added before showing clips from her audition process.<\/p>\n<p>Another showed her reading lines from what would eventually become a scene between Sophie Baek and Benedict Bridgerton in the third episode of Bridgerton Season 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least I tried,&#8221; said Chew of her experience. &#8220;I am thrilled that I was given the opportunity to try but Yerin Ha, you are absolutely amazing. There&#8217;s no one else that would have played that role, other than you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chew then quipped that &#8220;never in a million years&#8221; would she have gotten the role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/entertainment\/sonia-chew-bridgerton-audition-5983151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some initial misgivings, Chew eventually proceeded with the audition and submitted \u201csome headshots\u201d and told the production crew \u201ca bit of [herself]\u201d. &#8220;Then came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--gIf6Nh-y--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/03\/10\/sonia_chew_bridgerton.jpg?itok=gVDLHDu-","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6897,17710,15448,3353,535,17709],"class_list":["post-35078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-987fm","tag-auditioned","tag-bridgerton","tag-chew","tag-reveals","tag-sonia","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}