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‘Bridgerton’ Star Nicola Coughlan Shares Show Secrets and Season 2 Potential
Manori Ravindran International EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Bridgerton,” streaming now on Netflix.Netflix pulled out all the stops for Shondaland’s debut scripted series “Bridgerton,” a bonnet-busting take on the period drama that follows the society debuts of the Bridgerton and Featherington clans of Regency-era London.Most fans of the show, which is based on the best-selling series of books by Julia Quinn, will agree that when they weren’t lapping up the messy drama between Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and Duke Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page), they were relishing in the low-key feminist icon that is Penelope Featherington, played by scene-stealing “Derry Girls” star Nicola Coughlan.
