Pssst, Mr. and Mrs. Coughlan. Only watch the Bridgerton DVD. DO NOT turn on the television. Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope Featherington on the Shondaland bodice-ripper, revealed in an interview on SiriusXM Hits 1 that she has it written into her contract that Netflix and Shondaland must provide a PG-version of Bridgerton for her family’s viewing. “It’s literally written into my contract,” she said. “People think I’m like saying it as a joke.
I just don’t want to. I grew up Irish Catholic. That’s just not how we vibe.” It all dates to her mother’s surprise at the show’s nudity upon watching season 1. “When she first saw Bridgerton, she didn’t know it was gonna be so saucy,” Coughlan recalled. “And then you get a bottom, Jonathan Bailey’s lovely bottom, about two minutes into the first episode ever.
And she was like, ‘What is this?’ But then, now she thinks it’s fantastic and really funny, and she keeps talking about bottoms.” Coughlan can’t stop her parents from watching everything.
In her other acting gig, Tubi’s Big Mood, “There’s a saucy scene in Big Mood, not Bridgerton level, but it’s in there,” she said. “And I had avoided showing her that.
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