Nicola Coughlan. Andrea Renault/AFP/Getty
Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan is a proud member of the “excellent breasts group.”
The Irish actress had a hilarious — and cheeky — response to a remark about her physique at a Friday, June 6, fan screening in Dublin, Eire, after being instructed she is “very courageous” to play Penelope Featherington within the Regency interval drama, which is thought for its nudity.
Coughlan took the comment in stride and quipped, “You already know, it’s laborious, ’trigger I believe girls with my physique kind — girls with excellent breasts — we don’t get to see ourselves onscreen sufficient.”
“I’m a really proud member of the proper breasts group, and I hope you take pleasure in seeing them,” the actress continued to raucous applause and laughter from the viewers assembled on the Gentle Home Cinema, per a video shared by way of X.
her pout in the beginning 😭 pic.twitter.com/dinBsi5acR
— bel (@ccutiny) June 6, 2024
Coughlan, 37, stated she discovered filming the present’s nude and intercourse scenes “empowering” in a Q&A earlier than a particular preview of Bridgerton season 3, half 2, per the Irish Times. Nevertheless, she isn’t trying ahead to her household watching her steamy scenes with Luke Newton — who performs Penelope’s love curiosity, Colin Bridgerton — within the new episodes.
“It’s quite a bit. … My sister is right here tonight and he or she was all courageous and laborious. I used to be like, ‘Perhaps simply shut your eyes for a bit, there’s nothing I can do.’ They’ve actually masterminded this with a view to watch these scenes, that is essentially the most intense one, I might say most likely,” she stated forward of a screening of episode 5.
Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton. Liam Daniel/Netflix
“I believe, you recognize, what we’re going to do? I’ll allow them to watch it. I gained’t be there. After which afterwards, we’ll simply fake it by no means occurred — a pleasant little bit of denial. A little bit of Irish model, after I’m again dwelling, let’s simply neglect that second,” Coughlan added.
Coughlan lately revealed that she requested to be “very bare” on digital camera in season 3 in response to destructive feedback about her physique.
Bridgerton followers requested for steamy scenes between Colin and Penelope — and Netflix delivered precisely that. In the course of the first half of the third season, which began streaming on Thursday, Might 16, Colin (Luke Newton) and Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) discovered themselves shifting from buddies to lovers. Despite the fact that Penelope began the season out within the search […]
“I particularly requested for sure strains and moments to be included,” Coughlan instructed the U.Ok.’s Stylist journal. “There’s one scene the place I’m very bare on digital camera, and that was my thought, my alternative. It simply felt like the most important ‘f–ok you’ to all of the dialog surrounding my physique; it was amazingly empowering.”
“I felt stunning within the second,” she added. “And I believed, ‘Once I’m 80, I need to look again on this and bear in mind how f–king sizzling I seemed!’”
Bridgerton season 3 half 2 premieres on Netflix on Thursday, June 13.
