Fans are already looking ahead to Bridgerton season four.

One star – Rege-Jean Page – has not appeared on the show since his season one starring role as the Duke of Hastings.

Fans were dismayed when he decided to exit the series after season one, but in a resurfaced interview, he explained why he exited.

On becoming an overnight success after Bridgerton…

Rege-Jean responded, “It’s overnight for everyone else. Nothing changes for me. When it’s tough, when no one wants you in the room, when you’ve got to fight to bust down the door—you do the work, you turn up. It works or it doesn’t. When it’s loud and there’s a lot of attention and people are gassing you up with all kinds of things—some are true, some aren’t—same thing: You turn up, you do the work, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. The trick is to make sure that you focus on your job as hard as you did when you were struggling to get to do your job.”

On why he left Bridgerton and if it was because he didn’t want to become “pigeonholed”…

Rege-Jean responded, “It’s much simpler than that. I signed up to do a job and I did the job and then I did some other jobs. That’s it. That’s the story. I wish it was more glamorous than that. [After] we finished the story, the temptation would be to roll with the distractions and go, ‘Oh, well, the story went really well so we can kind of change this up and make some other stuff up, I guess.’ That was never what we’d signed up to do.”

Find out who else might be exiting Bridgerton ahead of season four.