Nicola Coughlan wasn’t here for the criticism on Bridgerton‘s diverse, inclusive casting. The Netflix breakout star of Derry Girls and the aforementioned series, 33, took to Twitter on January 5 to respond to haters who thought a diverse cast in the period drama series wouldn’t “work” on the show. “You know the way some people were like ‘Diversity in period drama doesn’t work’….63 million households thought it did tho so,” she tweeted adding a skull emoji.
Doubling down on her response, Nicola even retweeted a January 4 statistic from the Netflix Queue account, which read, “In its first four weeks, Bridgerton is projected to court more than 63 million households, which would make it Netflix’s fifth biggest original series launched to date.”
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