Coughlan, Featherton Character in Bridgerton Explains Why Nudity Necessary For Her Scene

She said that nudity scenes are necessary to bring a love scene to life and this was why she specifically requested it to add life to the romance.

Nicola Coughlan, the famous American actress that played Penelope Featherton in Bridgerton, wants her nudes to really be shown.

The actress, in an interview with Stylist, explains this after her nudity scene in its Season 3 took lead in the trending discussion of the movie, on Thursday. She said that nudity scenes are necessary to bring a love scene to life and this was why she specifically requested it to add life to the romance.

“I particularly requested for sure strains and moments to be included,” she defined. “There’s one scene where I am very bare on digicam, and that was my thought, my selection.”

The 37-year-old performs as Penelope Featherton within the Netflix sequence.

“It simply felt like the largest ‘f–k you’ to all of the dialog surrounding my physique; it was amazingly empowering,” she stated, earlier than including how she felt within the second.

“I felt stunning within the second, and I assumed: ‘After I’m 80, I wish to look again on this and bear in mind how f–king sizzling I seemed!’” she added.

Coughlan’s confidence took a while to get to set, nevertheless, with the actress explaining that when she initially tried on the strapless thong in preparation for the scene, she had some doubts.

“I went to the lavatory and seemed within the full-length mirror,” she recalled in an interview with The Los Angeles Instances. “I used to be like, ‘Completely not.’ I hid it down the underside of the laundry basket. I used to be like, ‘How am I going to do that?’”

Nonetheless, it did not take lengthy for her to revel within the freedom of being nude, including, “By the top of the day, we had been each mendacity below a blanket, not clothed, simply chillin.’ We had been like, ‘Because of this nudists do it.’”

In an attention-grabbing juxtaposition, her co-star Luke Newton — who performs love curiosity Colin Bridgerton — revealed to PEOPLE there has been some psychological gymnastics to bring all on set.

“I feel there’s always been that underlying form of query mark with these two characters,” he said of Colin and Penelope’s friends-to-lovers relationship. “And other people have clearly needed them to get to the purpose that we’re attending to now, so I assume it was all the time behind our minds.”

“You sort of play that in earlier seasons and in earlier scenes, however you’ll be able to’t actually put together stripping down bare in the entrance of your pals,” he added.

The primary part of Bridgerton Season 3 is streaming on Netflix now; Half 2 drops June 13.

Enoch Oyedibu

I am a writer and investigative journalist who specialises in literary criticism and underrepresented narratives. Among other publications, I have been featured in Business Day Nigeria, TheICIR, Platform Times and Daily Nigerian. Right now, I work as a full-time staff writer for Unconventional Magazine.