For half of her time filming Huge Temper, Coughlan was additionally capturing the third season of Bridgerton. She stars as Penelope Featherington, who reveals her secret identification to the Ton as Girl Whistledown, the writer of an nameless gossip sheet.
There are additionally loads of steamy scenes with Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), her long-time crush who she finally ends up marrying. Coughlan even shared an Instagram photo in June 2024 of them each subsequent to a chunk of furnishings they broke throughout a intercourse scene!
Does she really feel like she has extra company doing intimate scenes with an intimacy coordinator? “I am the greatest fan of intimacy coordinators. They’re crucial and good. Lizzy Talbot, who labored on Bridgerton, was so phenomenal,” Coughlan instructed Radio Instances solely.
She added: “It is actually attention-grabbing, since you see quite a bit of backlash from actors of an older technology saying they do not get why intimacy coordinators are there or why they need them. It is not poo-pooing the manner that issues was once completed or to disgrace anybody, however it simply makes you’re feeling a lot safer and in management.
“It is handled like a stunt, so it is left in your arms, however you by no means really feel like issues are going to go awry or that you do not know what is going on to occur subsequent. You allow the set feeling empowered and good, which is what everybody ought to depart their workday feeling like. There are not any blurred traces, it is not scary.”
The extremely anticipated fourth season of Bridgerton probably gained’t be launched till 2026. Luke Thompson’s Benedict Bridgerton and his love story with maid Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) might be the focus as they change into acquainted at Violet Bridgerton’s (Ruth Gemmell) masquerade ball.
We’ll be capable to catch Coughlan in The Magic Faraway Tree, Simon Farnaby’s movie adaptation based mostly on The Faraway Tree collection of kids’s novels by Enid Blyton, later this yr.
She’ll star as woodland fairy Silky alongside fellow BAFTA nominee Jessica Gunning, plus Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy.
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