“Bridgerton” star Nicola Coughlan felt empowered by her Season 3 intercourse scenes together with her co-star Luke Newton.
Actually, the actress informed Stylist journal in an interview launched Tuesday that she insisted on extra nudity between her and Newton’s characters to spite physique shamers.
“I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” she recalled. “There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice.”
“It just felt like the biggest ‘f–k you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body; it was amazingly empowering.”
She added, “I felt beautiful in the moment, and I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how fucking hot I looked!’”
Coughlan, who portrays Penelope Featherington on the hit Netflix sequence, had by no means filmed a intercourse scene earlier than “Bridgerton” and gushed to the Los Angeles Occasions earlier this week about how snug she and Newton, who performs Colin Bridgerton, felt collectively.
“By the end of the day, we were both lying under a blanket, not clothed, just chillin’. We were like, ‘This is why nudists do it,’” she remembered.
The 37-year-old actress wasn’t at all times enthusiastic about her impending nude scenes, although. She informed the Occasions she was horrified after she tried on a strapless thong which might function a protecting garment throughout manufacturing.
“I went to the bathroom and looked in the full-length mirror. I was like, ‘Absolutely not,’” she recalled. “I hid it down the bottom of the laundry basket. I was like, ‘How am I going to do this?’”
Coughlan, nonetheless, isn’t any stranger to dealing with uncomfortable conditions — together with physique shamers.
She has been outspoken about physique positivity and shutting haters down over time, together with by way of a 2022 Instagram submit that she used to ask critics to go away her alone.
“Hello! So just a thing- if you have an opinion about my body please, please don’t share it with me,” she penned alongside a mirror selfie.
“Most people are being nice and not trying to be offensive but I am just one real life human being and it’s really hard to take the weight of thousands of opinions on how you look- being sent directly to you every day,” Coughlan continued.
She concluded, “If you have an opinion about me that’s ok.”
“I understand I’m on TV and that people will have things to think and say but I beg you not to send it to me directly [heart emoji].”
The primary 4 episodes of Bridgerton Season 3 will start streaming on Netflix on Might 16. The subsequent 4 will drop on June 13.
