Nicola Coughlan on wanting to be naked in ‘Bridgerton’

Nicola Coughlan wasn’t ready to leave any crumbs (or clothes, for that matter) when it came to her performance in The Bridgerton Chronicles season 3. After candidly explaining that she asked to be “very naked” during the show’s steamy scenes, the actress explains the reasoning behind her choice. And no, it wasn’t to silence body shamers — she did it for herself, thank you very much.

“We had a lot of control and we chose how naked we were,” Coughlan said during a video interview with The Skimm. “People said, you know, she did it to show the body shamers. But I didn’t do it. I did it completely selfishly. I did it because I wanted to do it , and there’s something incredibly empowering about that.”

In a previous interview with the StylistCoughlan said getting naked in an upcoming sex scene in the second part of the season (which premieres on Netflix June 13) was “incredibly empowering.”

“There’s a scene where I’m very naked in front of the camera, and that was my idea, my choice,” she said. “It was just like the biggest ‘fuck you’ of the whole conversation around my body; it was incredibly empowering.

She added: “I felt beautiful in that moment and thought, ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back and remember how sexy I was!'”

In fact, she said that filming the steamy scenes with her co-star, Luke Newton, became her favorite part of this season, adding that it was very “liberating.”

“The sex scenes are revealing in many ways, but strangely enough, they’ve become one of my favorite parts of filming this season,” she said. Marie Claire Australia. “It ended up being quite powerful and quite liberating. Luke and I are really good partners and we had a lot of trust in each other. I would have had a hard time doing it with anyone else, because we could talk about it and text about it and we had a lot to say about how those scenes were done.

The real-life friends had so much fun filming that they even broke a piece of furniture on set. “Yeah, hell yeah, we did,” she told 7News Australia, adding that they “could laugh about it.”

“It felt like a really safe space,” Newton confirmed. “There were times where we were able to explore the scene and try it in different ways and it ended up breaking a piece of furniture.”