Regé-Jean Page movie ranked and reviewed, from Bridgerton to You, Me & Tuscany
From the Duke to ‘Tuscany’ : Every Regé-Jean Page Movie, Ranked and Revisited
Every Regé-Jean Page movie ranked and reviewed, from Bridgerton to You, Me & Tuscany. See why his new rom-com is a must-watch.
Regé-Jean Page has one of the stranger career arcs in contemporary Hollywood. He became one of the most famous actors on the planet almost overnight, then promptly walked away from the thing that made him famous. No second season. No victory lap. Just an actor who bet on himself — and spent the next five years trying to prove that the bet was worth it.
With You, Me & Tuscany arriving in theaters on April 10, 2026, Page finally has a role that feels calibrated to everything audiences responded to in the first place: warmth, physicality, that particular brand of restrained charisma that makes you lean forward in your seat.
It’s worth looking back at how he got here, because the path was anything but obvious.
Born in London to an English father and Zimbabwean mother, Page spent his childhood moving between Africa, Europe, and the United States before settling in London, where he trained at the Drama Centre London. He spent years grinding through British television — Waterloo Road, Fresh Meat, the 2016 Roots miniseries, Shonda Rhimes’ legal drama For the People — before a single season of a Netflix period drama turned him into a global phenomenon. What followed was a string of big-budget studio films that asked very different things of him, not all of which played to his strengths. Here’s how each one landed.
Bridgerton (2020)
Technically a series, not a film — but you cannot write about Regé-Jean Page’s career without starting here, because without Bridgerton, there is no career to write about. Shonda Rhimes’ Regency-era romance, adapted from Julia Quinn’s novels, cast Page as Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings — a brooding, emotionally guarded aristocrat whose slow-burn romance with Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) became the kind of cultural event that Netflix rarely generates anymore.
The show debuted in December 2020, in the dead center of a global pandemic, and was watched by an estimated 82 million households in its first 28 days. Page became an instant leading man. He won an NAACP Image Award, earned a Primetime Emmy nomination, and was immediately floated as a candidate for James Bond — the kind of speculation that only attaches to actors who have crossed a very specific threshold of public fascination. What made the performance work wasn’t the period costume or the smoldering glances, though those didn’t hurt. It was Page’s ability to convey vulnerability beneath composure, to make emotional repression feel like its own kind of action.
Then he left. He had signed a one-season deal, and he honored it. The decision baffled fans and confused industry observers, but it revealed something essential about Page’s ambitions: he wanted to be a film actor, not a television fixture. The question was whether Hollywood would give him the roles to prove it.
The Gray Man (2022)
Hollywood’s first answer was a $200 million Netflix action film directed by the Russo Brothers, starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. Page played Denny Carmichael, a CIA bureaucrat and secondary antagonist — essentially a suit behind a desk, ordering other people to do violent things. The role was thin by design, and Page couldn’t do much with it. Critics were unkind: one described him as “one-dimensionally evil,” which was less a knock on Page than on a script that gave him nothing to play.
The Gray Man was Netflix’s attempt at building a franchise to rival Mission: Impossible, and it performed reasonably well on the platform, but it landed with a critical thud. For Page, it was a cautionary lesson in what happens when a charismatic actor gets slotted into a role that requires no charisma at all. The movie needed him to be cold and bureaucratic. Audiences needed him to be anything but.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
This was more like it. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley’s adaptation of the beloved tabletop RPG was a genuine surprise — a fantasy-comedy with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score, an A- CinemaScore, and the kind of ensemble chemistry that critics compared to Guardians of the Galaxy. Page played Xenk Yendar, a noble paladin so comically earnest and upright that he functioned as both a legitimate hero and a deadpan comedic foil to Chris Pine’s wisecracking bard.
It was a smart bit of casting. Xenk let Page deploy the same regal bearing that defined the Duke of Hastings, but in a context that was aware of its own absurdity. The role was relatively small — Page appears for roughly one act of the film — but he made the most of it, and audiences responded. The film grossed $208 million worldwide, which sounds healthy until you remember it cost $150 million to produce. It underperformed theatrically despite earning rapturous reviews and has since found a devoted cult audience on streaming. Page walked away looking good even as the box office didn’t.
Black Bag (2025)
Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller handed Page his most sophisticated ensemble to date. He played Colonel James Stokes, a polished and ambitious intelligence officer who is one of five suspects in a leak investigation led by Michael Fassbender’s George Woodhouse. Opposite Cate Blanchett, Fassbender, Pierce Brosnan, Naomie Harris, and Marisa Abela, Page held his own in a cast that could have easily swallowed him whole.
Black Bag earned the best reviews of Soderbergh’s career — a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes — and critics praised its witty, dialogue-driven approach to espionage. But the film struggled commercially, grossing just $43 million against a $50-60 million budget, prompting Soderbergh himself to publicly lament the shrinking theatrical audience for mid-budget, adult-oriented cinema. For Page, though, the film was a credibility deposit. Working with Soderbergh, holding the screen against Blanchett and Fassbender — that’s the kind of résumé line that pays dividends for years. It proved he belonged in rooms that had nothing to do with Regency-era romance.
You, Me & Tuscany (2026)
And now, the rom-com. Directed by Kat Coiro and produced by Will Packer, You, Me & Tuscany stars Halle Bailey as Anna, a directionless young cook who impulsively flies to Tuscany, squats in a stranger’s villa, and accidentally falls for Michael (Page), the villa owner’s cousin who runs the family vineyard. It’s a fake-dating, sun-drenched, food-and-wine-soaked romantic comedy — the kind of mid-budget original that studios have largely stopped making for theatrical release.
Early reviews describe the film as deliberately formulaic in the best sense — predictable beats, gorgeous cinematography by Danny Ruhlmann, a supporting cast that steals scenes at will (Marco Calvani’s cab driver Lorenzo and Aziza Scott’s best friend Claire have drawn particular praise). Page, for his part, finally gets to do the thing audiences have wanted him to do since 2020: be charming, be funny, take his shirt off when the sprinklers come on, and make someone fall in love with him over wine and pasta. The film carries an unusual weight beyond its rom-com premise — filmmaker Nina Lee publicly noted that studios are watching its box office performance before greenlit similar projects, making You, Me & Tuscany something of a bellwether for whether Black-led romantic comedies can still find theatrical audiences.
FAQ
What movies has Regé-Jean Page been in? Page’s film credits include Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), The Gray Man (2022), Black Bag (2025), and You, Me & Tuscany (2026). He’s best known for his breakout role as the Duke of Hastings in Netflix’s Bridgerton (2020), along with earlier television work in Roots (2016) and For the People (2018-2019).
Is Regé-Jean Page in You, Me & Tuscany? Yes — Page plays Michael, the male romantic lead opposite Halle Bailey’s Anna. He’s the cousin of the villa owner and runs the family vineyard in Tuscany. The film is directed by Kat Coiro, produced by Will Packer, and released by Universal Pictures on April 10, 2026.
Why did Regé-Jean Page leave Bridgerton? Page signed a one-season deal for Bridgerton and chose not to return for Season 2, despite being offered the opportunity. He has said he wanted to pursue film work and other opportunities beyond the show. His departure surprised fans but was consistent with how each season of Bridgerton focuses on a different couple from the Quinn novels.
Why You Should See It
You, Me & Tuscany is the role Page’s entire post-Bridgerton career has been building toward — the one that finally lets him be romantic, funny, and present all at the same time. If you’re in, pair it with Under the Tuscan Sun for the full Tuscany double feature, or revisit Bridgerton Season 1 to remember why this guy became famous in the first place. Either way, buy a ticket. The future of original rom-coms in theaters may genuinely depend on it.