Actress Nicola Coughlan who is currently gaining a lot of praise for her role as Penelope Featherington in the Bridgerton revealed how she learnt the shocking twist about her character. During a May 14 appearance on the Seth Meyers’s Late Night show the actress shared that she knew her secret identity before she even stepped foot onto set. Let’s check out what she had said.
Nicola Coughlan said she found out about her character’s identity in a super professional way
“I found out in a super professional way,” she told the host Seth Meyers. “I found out on a Reddit fan forum. Because I Googled it. And then I arrived day one and I was like, ‘This is amazing—am I her? Like is that me?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, it’s you.’”
The 37-year-old continued, “And then I proceeded to tell everyone, so it was a surprise for nobody on the cast because I couldn’t stop talking about it.”
Later on Seth was sure to point out. “So it turns out you were terribly cast as someone who is good at keeping a secret,” to which the Derry Girls actress concurred, “Absolutely rubbish, yeah.”
The third installment of the series will focus around the love story between Penelope and Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton.
Moreover, in the series the on-screen couple’s sex scenes are the talk of the town which Nicola wasn’t comfortable but eventually embraced.
As per People she told Stylist in a recent interview,”I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included. There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice.”
She explained, “It just felt like the biggest ‘f–k you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body. It was amazingly empowering. I felt beautiful in the moment, and I thought, ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how f–king hot I looked!’”
As for her co-star Luke he said after working with each other for four years they had a certain physical comfort level with each other which helps immensely.
“It was natural,” he explained. “We didn’t have to do anything to ignite that. It was kind of like these characters had got there over a long period of time—they talk of Colin and Pen as the slow burn romance—but really when we got there…”
Bridgerton’s third season is currently streaming on Netflix.
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