Nicola Coughlan

Speaking to Digital Spy and other press outlets while promoting Bridgerton season 2, Coughlan revealed that pandemic-related pushbacks led to a filming overlap, ...

But I think, you know, the fans of the show are going to be happy. So it means you have to go and do the show that you're on first call to, which was Bridgerton. "I won't lie because, you know, at the best of times trying to manage different projects, it's such a push and pull.

Dear readers, the Bridgerton Season 2 finale was a rough episode for our beloved Lady Whistledown, known by her friends and family as Penelope Featherington ( ...

"I think Penelope is going to be in a dark place because she's lost Eloise and she's lost Colin, so all she has is Whistledown," Coughlan said. "It's funny because in the books it's 10 years from Book 1 to Book 4. "I just need to know that [she] and Eloise will be okay," she said. Asked how she felt about her looming tenure as a Bridgerton romantic heroine in light of Colin and Penelope's accelerated track in Season 2, Coughlan admitted that it's something that she has considered a lot. The queen is scared of her.'" She's got all this money [and] that's going to have some effect on her, but I think she needed to come back down a few pegs." The loss of Colin and Eloise has Coughlan a bit fearful for the confirmed Season 3, which she claims she knows nothing about plot-wise. "I feel like she's going to be a bit of a savage. "In the books, Eloise sort of goes, 'Oh yeah, it's OK. Don't worry about it.' I don't know if in real life a friend would be that chill that she's been writing about her family for all these years. Of course, the heartbreak didn't stop with Colin. Immediately after hearing that he absolutely does not return her feelings for him, Penelope escaped to her room only to find Eloise ( Claudia Jesse) there with all of the evidence she needed to confirm Penelope is Lady Whistledown and they immediately had a friendship-ending blowout. It was really brilliantly written and I really wanted to do it justice. He is dismayed at how rude he came across and regrets the embarrassment and pain he caused Penelope in that moment. He's wonderful, but she's got to see him as a real person, first off, before she could ever have a relationship with him."

Penelope is Lady Whistledown in the Bridgerton books and show. Star Nicola Coughlan talks to TODAY about playing such a complex character and the twist.

"She just wants Eloise to think she's the greatest person in the world, because she thinks Eloise is the greatest person in the world," she says. "Maybe this is how Penelope is going to learn some empathy," she says, laughing. Is this what it feels like to be a Bridgerton, the subject of a Whistledown column? She gave up Whistledown for Eloise. And when she feels like she doesn't have Eloise anymore, and has lost the only thing in her life that makes her happy, that's why she goes back to Whistledown," Coughlan says. "I was like, 'This is so strange.'" "Sometimes I would sit on a tube or cafe, and sometimes start eavesdropping. For a while, in season two, Penelope attempts to quit Whistledown and shut down that side to her. "She's just a complex young lady." For Penelope, the girl that everyone overlooks, is Whistledown. Penelope uses what might be a shortcoming into a superpower. Unfortunately for Lady Whistledown, two characters in season two of "Bridgerton" are set on sleuthing their way to her true identity. If the writer's identity is revealed, then no more Whistledown — and no more accurate gossip. Whistledown is sharp, but not at the expense of the underserving; observant, not untrue; witty, and never unkind.

The Derry Girls actress returns as Penelope Featherington in the newest season of Bridgerton after spending the pandemic living in her fabulous and relaxing ...

The Netflix star’s living room has antique furniture which gives the room a cosy feeling. On the other side of the window, she has a thin bookshelf that is jam packed of different genres. Nicola has a white desk beside her window that is filled with makeup, hair care products and different bottles of drink.

The actress, who plays Clare Devlin, admitted there had been "compromises" as she was filming Bridgerton at the same time.

But I think, you know, the fans of the show are going to be happy." And that caused me insane stress because I was on what in the industry is called first call. I won't lie because, you know, at the best of times trying to manage different projects, it's such a push and pull.

Nicola will be seen in the third and final season of Derry Girls when it airs in the coming months, but she has explained fans will see a lot less of her in the ...

But I think, you know, the fans of the show are going to be happy. So it means you have to go and do the show that you’re on first call to, which was Bridgerton. And that caused me insane stress because I was on [what] in the industry is called first call.