Nicola Coughlan has had enough of people calling her ‘brave’ for doing nude scenes in Bridgerton and referring to her as a ‘plus-sized heroine’ as she finds it insulting to just focus on her size.
The Irish actress was named as one of Time Magazine’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’ and when speaking to the outlet, they brought up the amount of talk surrounding her intimate scenes with co-star Luke Newton.
Nicola Coughlan has had enough of people calling her ‘brave’ for doing nude scenes in Bridgerton and referring to her as a ‘plus-sized heroine’ as she finds it insulting to just focus on her size.
The Irish actress was named as one of Time Magazine’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’ and when speaking to the outlet, they brought up the amount of talk surrounding her intimate scenes with co-star Luke Newton.
The 37-year-old shared how she found the body-centric attention to be ‘reductive and boring’ and for that to be the focus and not the amount of work she put in and the sacrifices she made to shoot season three of the hit Netflix show.
Nicola Coughlan has had enough of people calling her ‘brave’ for doing nude scenes in Bridgerton and referring to her as a ‘plus-sized heroine’ as she finds it insulting to just focus on her size.
The Irish actress was named as one of Time Magazine’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’ and when speaking to the outlet, they brought up the amount of talk surrounding her intimate scenes with co-star Luke Newton.
The 37-year-old shared how she found the body-centric attention to be ‘reductive and boring’ and for that to be the focus and not the amount of work she put in and the sacrifices she made to shoot season three of the hit Netflix show.
She explained: ‘Don’t call me brave. I have a cracking pair of boobs. 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 UK and I’m seen as a “plus-size heroine.”
‘I worked my arse off for that show. I barely saw my family and friends, and people were just going, “But your body…”‘
While Nicola is aware that most people mean it as a compliment and look to her as inspirational for baring all on screen, when it’s all people can say to her, she doesn’t take it as ‘nice’
She continued: ‘I don’t take it as nice. Making it about how I look is reductive and boring.
‘What if I was suddenly going to play a ballerina and lose a sh-t ton of weight, are you not going to like me anymore? That’s insane and so insulting.’
In the meantime, the Galway girl will be back in the ‘Ton for season four of the hit Netflix show, confirming her future on the show to Geek Ireland during the season three premiere in Dublin.
Fans will be thrilled to hear that Polin will be returning, with Nicola saying: ‘I’m definitely back for season four. I haven’t seen any scripts. I don’t know, but I’m really excited for it to go onto the next love story.
‘Luke and I have had such an incredible time filming it and going around the world on this tour. Like we literally been in Brazil, Australia, Toronto, New York… it’s been phenomenal. So yeah, no regrets. I feel like we gave it everything.’
