Netflix’s Bridgerton has captivated fans since its first season, and Nicola Coughlan has been an integral part as Penelope Featherington and Lady Whistledown. The actor revealed she is stepping back as her popular character for Bridgerton Season 5.
Coughlan is undoubtedly one of the most well-loved roles in the Regency-era series that has told a separate Bridgerton sibling love story each season. The actor’s character arc has taken quite a few juicy turns, from a friend-to-lovers story to the reveal of her alter ego as the ton’s gossip writer, Lady Whistledown.
Following Benedict (Luke Thompson) and Sophie’s (Yerin Ha) Season 4 love story, Netflix announced Francesca (Hannah Dodd) and Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza) would lead the fifth season in the series’ first main LGBTQ romance. While it’s customary for the main cast of characters to return in some capacity each season, Coughlan told E! News she won’t be returning as fans would hope.
She told the outlet it was an “incredible experience” to have led Bridgerton Season 3 and be an integral part of each installment. For Season 5, she admits it was “so nice and low pressure” to have a much smaller part to play.
“It’s bittersweet,” Coughlan said. “I feel like, God, I had such an epic run. I think that’s part of the beauty of that world is it keeps reinventing itself. Every season being a new story—it takes on a different guise.”
Have no fear, Coughplan will still appear, but she has other projects on her plate that are pushing her career forward. She was announced to join Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez for its sixth season as a recurring character. The mystery storyline is headed across the pond to London. The Derry Girls star says she felt “lucky” to still be a part of the Netflix series while working on her new series.
“I feel very lucky,” Coughlan said. “It’s the best of both worlds, because I’m currently filming on Only Murders, but I still get to pop back to Bridgerton now and then and see everybody, and it’s just like coming home. You’re like, ‘Oh, hey guys, how you doing?'”
Her limited role in Bridgerton Season 5 doesn’t mean she’s gone forever, as she adds she’s always willing to “pop back to Bridgerton if they want me” and “If I can be set dressing, I’ll be there. No problem.”
With the fifth season slated for 2027, fans will still get to see Coughlan in new roles until then as she stars in The Magic Faraway Tree, hitting theaters at the end of the summer. The film was a no-brainer for the actor after reading the script and thinking she “desperately” wanted to do this, which is “quite a rare feeling as an actor.”
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