Nicola Coughlan is completely over her physique being the main target of a lot consideration.
The “Bridgerton” star pushed again on the public’s fixation on her determine in a new interview with Time journal the place she scoffed at being known as “brave” for going nude within the Regency-era romance sequence.
“Don’t call me brave. I have a cracking pair of boobs,” she stated. “There’s nothing brave about that, that’s actually just me showing them off.”
“I’m a few sizes below the average size of a woman in the U.K. and I’m seen as a ‘plus-size heroine,’” stated Coughlan, who performs the feisty Penelope Featherington on the present.
The Irish actor known as the physique speak all of the extra irritating given how a lot she put into her efficiency.
“I worked my arse off for that show. I barely saw my family and friends, and people were just going, ‘But your body,’” she defined.
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Although the actor understands that folks imply the feedback as a praise, she stated she doesn’t discover them “nice” in any respect.
“Making it about how I look is reductive and boring,” Coughlan defined. “What if I was suddenly going to play a ballerina and lose a shit ton of weight, are you not going to like me anymore? That’s insane and so insulting.”
Whereas talking with Stylist for its Might cowl story, the “Derry Girls” star shared that she drove the choice to reveal her physique throughout her intercourse scenes with costar Luke Newton, who performs her love curiosity Colin Bridgerton on the present.
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“There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice,” she revealed. “It just felt like the biggest ‘fuck you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body; it was amazingly empowering.”
“I felt beautiful in the moment, and I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how fucking hot I looked!’”
