Nicola Coughlan is opening up concerning the body-shaming she confronted when she was on Bridgerton.
The 39-year-old actress has starred as Penelope Featherington/Penelope Bridgerton because the begin of the Netflix collection.
In a brand new interview, Nicola addressed the body-shaming round her, particularly within the first couple of seasons, in addition to not having an curiosity in being a body-positivity advocate.
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“The factor I say typically that pisses individuals off is I’ve little interest in physique positivity. Once I was a child rising up, I by no means considered that. I didn’t take a look at actors and take into consideration their our bodies. So, I really don’t care,” she instructed Elle UK. “There’s quite a lot of issues I’m captivated with, it’s not certainly one of them… That’s another person’s factor. It’s not mine.”
Nicola additionally talked concerning the body-shamers over her nude scenes on the present. There was even one scene she notably requested to do!
“ what was actually weird was, after I was taking pictures that collection, I used to be exercising loads as a result of I knew I needed to, so I had misplaced a bunch of weight – I used to be most likely a dimension 10 and one of many corsets was a dimension 8. After which individuals talked about how I used to be plus dimension and I used to be like, ‘How f-cked are we that I’m the most important girl you need to see on display?’” she mentioned.
“I bear in mind this actually drunk woman as soon as speaking to me in a rest room being like, ‘I beloved (Bridgerton) due to your physique.’ And began speaking about my physique, and I used to be like, ‘I need to die. I hate this a lot…’” Nicola recalled. “It’s actually laborious whenever you work on one thing for months and months of your life, you don’t see your loved ones, you actually dedicate your self after which it comes all the way down to what you seem like – it’s so f-cking boring.”
Beforehand, Nicola revealed there was a member of the family that was not too thrilled about her Bridgerton intimate scenes…