Nicola Coughlan

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'Bridgerton: Nicola Coughlan Calls Idea of Filming Love Scenes ... (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)

'Bridgerton' star Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope Featherington, said that her scenes with co-star Luke Newton could end up being 'quite racy.'

That’s a big part of it for the fans of the book as well — I know the scenes the readers want. Coughlan is well aware that her and Newton’s characters eventually end up together in Quinn’s novels. Daphne (Phoebe Dyvenor) took center stage in season 1, while Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) is at the heart of season 2. Penelope has long nursed a secret crush on her best friend’s older brother, Colin Bridgerton ( Luke Newton). But will the clueless Colin ever notice that Penelope is in love with him? Netflix has already renewed Bridgerton for seasons 3 and 4. Bridgerton is based on a series of novels by Julia Quinn. Each book — and so far, each season of the show — focuses on a different Bridgerton sibling.

What is the future of the Peneloise friendship after THAT <em ... (EW.com)

We talk to Bridgerton stars Nicola Coughlan and Claudia Jessie about the future of the Peneloise friendship after that huge reveal.

The love there is so strong and so deep, but it's not going to be a quick fix by any means." Still, the season ends with Penelope/Lady Whistledown picking up her quill once more — and that might not sit well with Eloise, considering how much her family has already suffered thanks to Whistledown's poisonous pen. "My instinct is no," muses Coughlan. "I would have to ask the writers, but I think they love each other too much. "The last place your parents are going to expect to find their teenagers' cigarettes is in their own bedroom," she quips. "She almost immediately regretted it when the words came out of her mouth," she says. As for Eloise, some might wonder why it took arguably the most intelligent of the Bridgerton brood two full seasons to uncover Lady Whistledown's identity, when it was her best friend. However, I do think it's going to take time and effort, because the levels of betrayal are so big." The reason for that is the fact that Eloise admires and has admired Lady Whistledown for so long. We knew the fallout was going to be bad, but it was very bad." She's used to hearing people speak like that to one another growing up, so it comes quite easily to her." I don't know how she'd be able to get over that quickly." "There's so much to unpack," Jessie expounds.

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan teases Penelope sex scene is coming (digitalspy.com)

Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope on Bridgerton, has teased what to expect from season 2 of the Netflix period drama.

And it's just if they're sort of arguing, and then it all gets very romantic, shall we say, but I think it will be such a good scene in the show. It terrifies me to think of filming but I think it would be really great." "So I know that it gets extremely racy in that scene. "I think I'm genuinely and I'm not kidding – going to ask Shondaland for a special family friendly cut. "Luke and I, we used to joke about it all the time, and then it becomes progressively less funny and more intimidating as time goes on [...] I'm really interested in how it's gonna play out because she's quite modern a lot of ways in that she, she's a businesswoman. And I know her love interest already, it's Colin Bridgerton."

Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan Made Sure That Pivotal 'Polin' Scene ... (TV Guide)

Dear readers, the Bridgerton Season 2 finale was a rough episode for our beloved Lady Whistledown, known by her friends and family as Penelope Featherington ( ...

"I think Penelope is going to be in a dark place because she's lost Eloise and she's lost Colin, so all she has is Whistledown," Coughlan said. "It's funny because in the books it's 10 years from Book 1 to Book 4. "I just need to know that [she] and Eloise will be okay," she said. Asked how she felt about her looming tenure as a Bridgerton romantic heroine in light of Colin and Penelope's accelerated track in Season 2, Coughlan admitted that it's something that she has considered a lot. The queen is scared of her.'" She's got all this money [and] that's going to have some effect on her, but I think she needed to come back down a few pegs." The loss of Colin and Eloise has Coughlan a bit fearful for the confirmed Season 3, which she claims she knows nothing about plot-wise. "I feel like she's going to be a bit of a savage. "In the books, Eloise sort of goes, 'Oh yeah, it's OK. Don't worry about it.' I don't know if in real life a friend would be that chill that she's been writing about her family for all these years. Of course, the heartbreak didn't stop with Colin. Immediately after hearing that he absolutely does not return her feelings for him, Penelope escaped to her room only to find Eloise ( Claudia Jesse) there with all of the evidence she needed to confirm Penelope is Lady Whistledown and they immediately had a friendship-ending blowout. It was really brilliantly written and I really wanted to do it justice. He is dismayed at how rude he came across and regrets the embarrassment and pain he caused Penelope in that moment. He's wonderful, but she's got to see him as a real person, first off, before she could ever have a relationship with him."

“History changes, society changes, but people inherently stay the same”: Nicola Coughlan on Society, Marriage, and Being the Gossip Queen of Bridgerton, Lady Whistledown (unknown)

Nicola Coughlan is an amazing actress. We got to see her comedic side in the hilarious political satire of Derry Girls. But in Bridgerton we see Nicola ...

But now in season two she really liked how now that everyone knows about the big reveal. Recently Nicola talked about the new season and her perception of women in modern society. But in the newest Bridgerton season 2, all things are out in the open.

'Bridgerton Stars on Penelope and Eloise's Big Lady Whistledown Fight (unknown)

The actresses talk to ET about the aftermath of the BFFs' blowout fight in the finale and what this means moving forward.

And so I think that I'd like her to continue to explore that. I don't think she'll want to ruin Penelope." She writes about her family, she knows that Eloise has been an enabler because they'll hang out and chat and gossip and then Penelope will absolutely put that in her column, so I think there's so much to unpack in this." "I was really pleased," Jessie said. Since you know Penelope is Lady Whistledown, you are very much aware when she’s not telling the truth and I’m honest to a fault, so I found it really uncomfortable when Penelope is outright talking at Eloise as Lady Whistledown. I was sweating. I think she has some apologizing to do." "I wish never to see or speak to you again," Eloise stated clearly before she left Penelope... for good? But I think Penelope has got some apologizing to do. "I wrote what I wrote and I gave it up for you," Penelope cried. "I look at you now and all I feel is pity for you. I ended my friendship with Theo because of you -- one of the only good things in my life, all because of your self-serving manipulation." And then I thought about how you've said about how people are talking about me and Theo -- only if that were the case, Whistledown would've written about it weeks ago...

Nicola Coughlan on Penelope's Decision (unknown)

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan talks about that Penelope Whistledown twist in the Season 2 finale and the emotionally charged scene with Eloise.

And also, I think Polly, especially in the finale, I love that final scene with her because I think it’s – it’s so well written and Polly performs it so brilliantly. Everything he does, she’s like, ‘It’s just just great,’ and ‘You’re going to have your purpose,’ and ‘You’re going to be wonderful.’ And she would support him to the ends of the Earth, but she’s got to see him as a human being before she could ever – before he could ever see her, I think, in a romantic way. It’s the thing that we all go, ‘Oh, well, we all turn into our parents.’ But I think that snap back she has at Eloise is pure from Portia. And also the fact that I think there’s a lot of Portia in Whistledown as well, you know, acerbic, cutting, gossipy – that’s totally her. Penelope would be like, ‘I’m nothing like the rest of my family.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, you are.’ Polly and I talked about this and Polly said that she thinks Penelope is actually her favorite child, but she doesn’t sort of know how to express it. I’m always really interested in the connection between Penelope and Portia because I think there’s a lot of Portia in Penelope that Penelpoe would never realize. I was like ‘Ohhh, God.’ And then, on the day, I was really stressed about it because also, we had a mini-fight in Season 1, and that was like nothing in comparison to this. And then I think she goes down out of the party to try and – to find Eloise. Because she’s never gonna be able to fix it immediately. So I think it’s good to like, knock him down a peg or two in her estimation, and she also needs to realize her worth and that she can’t – she’s so lovesick over him. And I think what sparks her to do that is she goes, ‘No, this is – I have nothing I’m gonna have this thing. They say hurt people hurt people and then she just goes for the jugular with Eloise and it was just horrible. She knows her secret, and it ends the friendship. As the Bridgerton daughter severed the relationship with her she did so by calling out Penelope’s sins, as she saw them, as Whistledown, including revealing Marina Thompson’s pregnancy (in Season 1), embarrassing Colin Bridgerton (with that reveal), and giving Eloise advice that made her break things off with printer shop clerk Theo.