Nicola Coughlan is speaking up after having experienced body shaming while working on Bridgerton, especially after her leading role in Season 3. The actor revealed why she has "no interest" in being a body positivity activist, and the public response fans had to her nude scenes in the series.
Season3 of the Netflix series finally gave fans a long-awaited friends-to-lovers story between Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Coughlan). While fans were enamored with the passionate storyline, it also led to a slew of online comments, both criticizing and praising Coughlan's nude scenes and weight. It went so far as for Julia Quinn and the showrunners having to publicly explain how Penelope's weight loss is addressed in the season.
In an interview with Elle, Coughlan revealed her true feelings about the intense focus on her weight and how absurd it was for her body type to be considered plus-size.
"You know what was really bizarre was, when I was shooting that series, I was exercising a lot because I knew I had to, so I had lost a bunch of weight – I was probably a size 10 and one of the corsets was a size 8," said the actor. "And then people talked about how I was plus size, and I was like, ‘How f----ed are we that I am the biggest woman you want to see on screen?'"
The actor even recalls an embarrassing moment when a drunk fan ran into her in a bathroom and started to praise the series, but also talk openly about the actor's body. Coughlan found the situation embarrassing, and thought about how it's hard to "work on something for months and months of your life, you don’t see your family, you really dedicate yourself and then it comes down to what you look like – it’s so f---ing boring."
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The Bridgerton star soon added that her outlook on body positivity is something that "pisses people off," but her reasoning is based on her own experience. She admits having "no interest" in becoming an advocate or speaking up about it as an actor, and its largley due to it not having been a focal point growing up.
"When I was a kid growing up, I never thought about that. I didn’t look at actors and think about their bodies. So, I actually don’t care. There’s a lot of things I’m passionate about, it’s not one of them… That’s someone else’s thing. It’s not mine," she said.
For Coughlan, she feels very "lucky" to have been a part of two very successful series, Bridgerton and Derry Girls, which is not always a "guarantee." While keeping her stance on body positivity, she does encourage women to get tested for ADHD, and how her own diagnosis has given her "a little more grace" for herself.
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