Nicola Coughlan makes clear her position as star of ‘The Bridgertons’ with an unusual negotiation stipulated in her contract. (Photo by John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)
The series of Los Bridgerton created a peculiar custom since its beginnings in 2020. With each season it told the matchmaking love story of a particular couple, and with such success that its leading actors achieved international stardom instantly. It happened with Regé-Jean Page, who left the series to try new paths as a Hollywood star; and with his partner Phoebe Dynevor which also left after the second season, sweeping along the way with virally successful films like Dirty game.
The same thing happened with Jonathan Bailey y Simone Ashley who, although they have not abandoned the series (yet), have been experiencing transcendental advances in their artistic careers since then. However, the case of the next couple of the third season will be different. Especially for one of the actors in particular.. Why Nicola Coughlan He’s already earned star status without even having released the season yet.
As fans of the successful period series know, the next batch of episodes is just around the corner (the agenda is set for May 16), returning us to the gossip and matchmaking universe of Julia Quinn’s novels set in the era of the British Regency. And as is the custom of the series Netflixthe third batch of episodes will focus on a new love story, that of Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) y Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), two figures who have been in the plot since the first episode and who will transform their friendship into another passionate love typical of this saga.
Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan will be the leading couple in the third season of ‘The Bridgertons’. (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023)
Because at this point it’s no secret that Los Bridgerton It places part of its romantic effectiveness in the most passionate, sensual and physical side of the protagonist couples. In heightening temptation and sexual tension with visual and narrative tricks that build a captivating romantic bubble. Such tactics include scenes of physical consummation where skin and nudity come into play. However, Nicola Coughlan made it clear from the negotiation of her contract how she wanted it to be carried out, marking her power as a central figure in a way that only a star achieves in Hollywood.
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The request of a star
This is what he told SiriusXM Hits 1 (via Variety) revealing that, during his contract negotiations, he managed to include a clause that stipulates that the production must edit alternative episodes to those that the public will see. Episodes that remove all scenes of sexual maturity for the sole purpose of showing them to their parents.
“It’s literally written in my contract. “People think I’m joking,” Coughlan said. “I just don’t want to… We grew up Irish Catholic. “That’s just not how we vibe.”
The actress then explained that her mother was surprised when she saw the series for the first time, since she immediately established her sensual and sexual intentions. “When she saw ‘Bridgerton’ for the first time, she didn’t know she was going to be bold. A butt appeared, Jonathan Bailey’s beautiful butt, about two minutes into the first episode. And she said, ‘What is this?’” Coughlan recalled. “But now he thinks it’s fantastic and really funny.”
While the public will watch the third season of ‘The Bridgertons’ with their usual passion, Nicola Coughlan’s family will see a ‘light’ version. (Cr. Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023)
In this way, out of respect for the modest and religious customs of his parents, Nicola Coughlan He contractually requested that the production do the added work of re-editing the episodes, deleting scenes and cutting sequences, rendering each episode anew for his personal use. It may seem easy but, in reality, it is a task that requires time, finding or detecting scenes that may ‘hurt’ Coughlan’s family sensitivity, cutting them and re-editing each necessary chapter. In theory, they can be hours of work that, in the end, are understood to pay for production itself.
But with this simple detail it is clear the value and importance that Nicola Coughlan has gained in the series. Because it is a purely personal request that the rest of the actors, especially secondary ones, would not be able to achieve with the same ease. Making a production add work to its team at the express personal request of an actor, when there are hundreds of actors in the cast, seems like an obvious example of his position as a star in this story. That he has the negotiating power that, perhaps, he didn’t have at the beginning when she was still an unknown. That he can now negotiate personal requests like a Hollywood star does.
A thorny path to success
Nicola Coughlan He has come a long way since he began his adventure with Los Bridgerton. Born 37 years ago in Galway, Ireland, she knew she wanted to be an actress at age five when she saw her older sister in a school play (The Cinemaholic). She moved to London and began appearing in films and series with minor roles, but her career did not take off and she was forced to return to Ireland, falling into a severe depression that kept her away from acting for a time. “She hadn’t had an audition in a year. I didn’t have any money in my bank account so I had to move back in with my parents,” she told the magazine. Glamour in 2020 (via Express).
“I couldn’t get out of bed. She felt like she had failed at everything. That I had nothing and had disappointed my family. “You think all those terrible things about yourself and, what’s worse, is that I had taken out a loan and I couldn’t stop thinking about my debt,” he added while saying that at 28 years old he had to ask his parents for money to even go drinking. a coffee.
Thanks to his family, the same one he protects with contractual clauses, he managed to get ahead. “My family and sister were wonderful, getting me out of bed to go running. “Things like that gave me purpose again and that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.”
In 2016, at age 29, he landed a leading role in a play in London. And then her career began again. Derry Girls, The successful Irish sitcom put her on the viewers’ map and some time later the Bridgerton family came into her life. In any case, success was not always a bed of roses.
In 2018 she lashed out at a theater critic named Philip Fisher on Twitter for calling her “the overweight girl” and “the fat girl” in a review. “My weight has no relevance in the performance I gave or in The prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, wrote on Twitter (now X), via Harpers Bazaar. The same year she wrote a column in the newspaper The Guardian asking critics to “judge her by her work” in Derry Girls (before Los Bridgerton) and “not because of my body.”
Some time later, in 2020 and with the series of Netflix On the way, he attacked fatphobia and viral hatred, pointing out the people who write to him on social networks to express their opinions focused on his physique. “Most people are being nice and I’m not trying to be offensive but I’m just a real human being and it’s really hard to carry the weight of thousands of opinions from thousands of people that are sent to me every day because of how you look,” she wrote on Instagram (via Harpers Bazaar). “If you have an opinion about me, that’s fine, I understand that I’m on television and people will have things to think and say, but I ask you not to send them directly to me,” she asked kindly.
Nicola Coughlan, the real star of ‘The Bridgertons’
The Irish actress has played Penelope since the beginning of the series, being one of the most special friends of the protagonist family but also, and as we discovered at the end of the first season, the real identity of Lady Whistledown, the gossip reporter of the British high society that has the queen obsessed. Because although Lady Whistledown tells her stories in the voice of Julie Andrews, it is Penelope who writes in her own hand the gossip that she hears as an invisible character in the midst of the society with which she lives.
And after writing about other people’s love stories, now it will be her turn to live hers with her great secret love, the Bridgertons’ third child, who will finally begin to see her as more than a friend.
Now will be your time to shine while your family watches the ‘light’ version.
This article was written exclusively for Yahoo en Español by Cine54.
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