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This season of the notoriously racy Netflix series “Bridgerton” is all about Penelope Featherington, and Nicola Coughlan, the actress who performs her, leaned into her intercourse scenes for a cause.
Coughlan stars because the heroine this time round in Season 3, and he or she was conscious of the conversations being had about her plus-sized physique after the primary two seasons.
“There’s one scene the place I’m very bare on digital camera, and that was my thought, my selection, Coughlan mentioned, according to Buzzfeed which reported on her latest interview with Stylist. “It simply felt like the most important ‘f–okay you’ to all of the dialog surrounding my physique; it was amazingly empowering.”
The actress additionally mentioned she “particularly requested for sure strains and moments to be included.”
Season 3 is concentrated partially on the connection between Penelope and Colin Bridgerton, performed by Luke Newton.
Coughlan mentioned she consulted with the show’s intimacy coordinator, Lizzy Talbot concerning her scenes.
“You go, OK, what do I wish to present?,” Coughlan mentioned in regards to the planning that goes into such sequences. “What don’t I wish to present? What’s scripted, and what do I wish to add?”
She additionally just lately talked to the Los Angeles Times about filming her first-ever intercourse scenes, which she mentioned she and Newton ended up feeling comfy doing.
“By the tip of the day, we have been each mendacity underneath a blanket, not clothed, simply chillin’,” she recalled. “We have been like, ‘That is why nudists do it.’”
The brand new season of “Bridgerton” is at present streaming on Netflix.