Nicola Coughlan hits back at trolls who say her waist was “photoshopped” on ‘Bridgerton’

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Bridgerton.The actor plays Penelope Featherington on the Netflix period romantic drama, and in a new interview with People, she has responded to certain social media speculation about her appearance on the show.“I think if you wear corsetry for long enough, your body really moulds to it,” she said about the costumes that she wears on the show’s sets. “Sometimes they come in a fitting for a fashion designer and they put a corset on me and I’m like, ‘Oh, you can go tight,’ and they go, ‘What do you mean?’ I’m like, ‘My body now will go whew.’”“I saw some trolls,” she continued. “They were like, ‘They photoshopped your waist,’ and I was like, ‘No, they did not.’”Last month, Coughlan went further when she said a nude sex scene in the new season was a “fuck you” to the online trolls who body shame her.Coughlan, who collaborated closely with Bridgerton intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot on her sex scenes, said: “You go, ‘Ok, what do I want to show?

What don’t I want to show? What’s scripted, and what do I want to add?’“I specifically asked for certain lines and moments to be included,” Coughlan continued. “There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice.

It just felt like the biggest ‘fuck you’ to all the conversation surrounding my body; it was amazingly empowering. I felt beautiful in the moment, and I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how fucking hot I looked!’”Coughlan has spoken out against online trolls in the past.