“Bridgerton” star Nicola Coughlan wants to see more complex female roles in television and movies. In an op-ed for The Guardian, the actress reflected on her television career, “Where were the messy women?
The loud women, the ones who were complete eejits (idiots)?” Remembering the time she was cast for the British sitcom “Derry Girls”, the star said, “I felt like being handed the holy grail.
Erin, Orla, Michelle and Clare (my role) were the female characters I had been waiting for: properly funny, obnoxious, unlikeable at times.” Coughlan also revealed the show’s producer Lisa McGee received a note to make one of the characters “a little softer, less in your face, more palatable,” but McGee’s response, “Why?” Coughlan shared. “So much
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