Nicola Coughlan is preventing again towards “Bridgerton” physique enhancing accusations.
The Netflix star informed Folks journal why she would possibly’ve regarded photoshopped on the present ― and all of it comes right down to the period-appropriate costumes.
“I think if you wear corsetry for long enough, your body really molds to it,” Coughlan mentioned within the interview, printed on Wednesday.
“Sometimes they come in a fitting for a fashion designer and they put a corset on me and I’m like, ‘Oh, you can go tight,’” the “Derry Girls” star mentioned. “And they go, ‘What do you mean?’ I’m like, ‘My body now will go whew.’”
“I saw some trolls. They were like, ‘They photoshopped your waist,’ and I was like, ‘No, they did not,’” she defined.
Coughlan is not any stranger to folks speaking about her physique, on and off the display.
Throughout a Q&A occasion in Dublin final week, the actor had the proper comeback when somebody referred to as her “brave” for baring her physique on the present.
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“You know, it is hard because I think women with my body type — women with perfect breasts — we don’t get to see ourselves on screen enough,” Coughlan mentioned.
“And I’m very proud as a member of the perfect breast community. I hope you enjoy seeing them,” she quipped.
The 37-year-old mentioned in a earlier interview that she made a aware choice to be “very naked on camera” for this season of the Netflix smash.
“I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” Coughlan mentioned in an interview with Stylist final month. “There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice. It just felt like the biggest ‘fuck you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body; it was amazingly empowering.”
The actor added that she “felt beautiful in the moment” and wished this time of her life memorialized.
“I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how fucking hot I looked!’” Coughlan mentioned.
