during filming bridgertonThe third season of, Nicola Coughlan There was one special request: more nudity please.
Coughlan, 37, who plays Penelope Featherton, aka secret gossip columnist “Lady Whistledown,” in the steamy Netflix series, told stylist magazine in an interview released Wednesday, May 15, saying she wanted to get naked during a love scene with her costar luke newton (Colin Bridgerton).
“I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” she explained. “There’s a scene where I’m completely naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice.”
“It felt like the biggest ‘F–k you’ of all the conversations I’ve had about my body; It was amazingly empowering,” she said. “I felt beautiful in that moment, and I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back at this and remember who I was. She looked so hot!’
After Anthony and Kate’s epic slow burn romance on Season 2 of Bridgerton, Colin and Penelope are now next in line. According to Julia Quinn’s books that inspired the hit Netflix series, the second-eldest Bridgerton brother will be next, but in May 2022, Nicola Coughlan confirmed that the fourth will have a romance. […]
Coughlan recently revealed Los Angeles Times She was nervous about filming a sex scene – it was her first – which required her to wear a strapless thong. When she tried it, “I went to the bathroom and looked in the full-length mirror,” she remembered. “I was like, ‘No way.’ I hid it under the laundry basket. I was like, ‘How am I going to do this?’
The experience proved to be much easier than she thought. ‘By the end of the day, we were both lying under a blanket, not wearing clothes, just freezing.’ We were like, ‘This is why nudists do it.'”
The romance between Penelope and Colin is prominently featured bridgerton Season 3, which begins Thursday, May 16. In the previous season, Coughlan’s character had an unrequited crush on the younger son of the Bridgerton family.
bridgertonNew listener of, Jess BrownellIs reason explained Behind the decision to focus on both this time.
“I really feel like it’s Colin and Penelope’s time. Because we’ve been seeing both of these actors on our screens since Season 1, we’re already a little invested in them. We know who those people are,” she said in 2022. “I feel like, especially in the last season, there are these moments of tension between them, where Colin almost walks the line of feeling that Penelope I have feelings for him but can’t get there. Instead of ruining that dynamic, we wanted to push it into their season. “It felt like the perfect time to really give it a try.”
Coughlan, who previously starred in British sitcoms dairy girlsWas up for the challenge of leading a romantic story.
“It felt like there were a lot of things with Penelope this season that were reflected in real life,” she explained. LA Times, “The whole theme of her coming out of the shadows and into the light, and not feeling quite ready — I felt like I had to do that.”
He further added, “It was really challenging. It was scary. It was a laxative. It was a million and one things. I loved it.”
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