Bridgerton Star Nicola Coughlan Spills Secrets on 'Big Mood' & Hollywood A-Listers! | This Morning

and Nicola joins us now so there's a great atmosphere, it

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ts tonight at 10pm. Channel 4, we loved watching it, it was like, thank you very much, but I didn't know what was going to happen next from the moment your character Maggie shows up on the scooter and is free, it was so much fun, it was so much fun, we filmed it in Ridley . Road Market and Dlon and a really strange Bridget and the connection to that scene. Corey Milc, he plays King George on Queen Charlotte, was there that day, but right, I'm sorry, we're best friends.

Don't know. Yes, he was basically like that. I see you like a pink velvet track. Sco road marking. I'm like you do. He was just aiming for the mark he was having. Don't know. He's having a good day and then he said, Yeah, when I met him. I think I saw you quickly with Stu's head and tell us a little bit about Shay, yes, it's written by one of my best friends, Camila White Hill, yes, it's a comedy, but it's a dark comedy that's about there are two girls. called Maggie and Eddie, where are you going now, they're in charge of the oh dude, dude, you don't care about the good

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, come on, give that dude, wait, wait, dude, he's been very well trained,

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you've got a lot dream and also.

Do you want it on the couch? I said yeah, but I think everything you do is perfect and you've never done anything wrong in your life, dude, um, yeah, so it's about two girls, Maggie and Eddie, and their best friends. turn 30 and they're in a fun stage of their lives where they go away and get married and have kids or you know what's going on with their careers, it's like that weird adjustment period and then my character Maggie has bipolar disorder, like that. that that's something that breaks through, so it gets pretty dark, just as a warning to people, some people have already seen it today and they say, "It goes to a place, I'm like it does, but brightly, so Cam is an incredible, brilliant writer." It's fun for you too, but it's a challenge because she's bipolar so you're not really sure what she's going to be like at any given moment and I imagine the way you filmed

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some days where you filmed scenes from different episodes and a day, one moment you're high, the next moment you're very depressed, it's crazy, like we filmed it in seven weeks, which is no time at all and they're literally like yeah, playing it very, very depressed and in the next scene she is manic and We had an amazing director named Rebecca Asher who worked on some of my favorite shows like Arrested Development and Brooklyn 99 and she came from the United States to do this and, yes, I would trust her and CA a lot to say where is she?

At this moment, what state is she in? We literally filmed the opening scene and the ending scene back to back one of the days, which is really yeah, yeah, yeah, but really fun, I have to talk to you about Bridget, I have to have season three. Coming soon MH mhm and it will be released in May and June May and June, yes, May 16th and then June 13th. I hope I do well and then this will really revolve around you because it's about Colin Bridgeton finding love, yes it should. It will be great, it's really exciting, it was a huge challenge.

I filmed Bridget and a big

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at the same time for three weeks. I mean that's crazy so we filmed one in East London and one in West London and my head was completely gone but I had the best time filming it Luke is amazing he's so romantic this season , they have really stepped up their game. I love seasons one and two, but when we got these scripts it was like, oh wow, okay, yeah, I'm really excited for season two. increases shameless season three, which I think we've won, so I think we could have, so you've been getting your first share of hot sex scenes in this one, how do you, uh, how do you get? around that, how do you navigate?

It's really stressful, but luckily I've known Luke for four years. He's a super nice guy. Does that make it easier or worse at first and then better in reality because we could write? to laugh about it and you know, he was quite liberating and very fun to do. I wouldn't have thought of it before, but an amazing intimacy coordinator, Lizzie Talbert, who was there and treated it like a gimmick and we had a lot. Instead of saying what we wanted to do, I just explained a little to the viewers what an intimacy coordinator does. intimacy, so yeah, they're like a stunt coordinator, but for sexy scenes, so it's kind of like how do you get these jobs?

Do you understand that it is a very well done job, yes, in many ways, yes, yes, absolutely, but then, but illuminated, so what they will do is coordinate where your hands go, not quite, it's kind of like with what you feel comfortable? but Luke and I really said a lot about what we wanted to do and had ideas about how we wanted things to play out, which was great because we really felt like we were in control, yeah, I mean, and did you meet Julie? Andrews no I haven't I really want to but it might be too much yeah that's if people don't know if they're like what do you do?

I can only say as a sample of work with Julie Andrews, that's the truth. I know she's the voice of Lady Whistle, of course, but you don't know her. I mean, how does it feel to know that you two connected over this? Incredible, it's incredible. I cried when I found out she was cast because they told us they said she's someone who's really iconic but she's like that word is overused but she's really an icon so yeah sure do you think you'll want her for me ? I would love to, I mean, you have to do it.

She would be very intimidating, but I would love it. Yes, she is amazing, you would love her, really, yes, she is everything you want her to be, yes, without a doubt, but the success of Bridgeton I was. You forget that that first series landed where we're all locked down, so it was all-consuming for you to have gone from this kind of

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t relatively with this incredible role to having this global success, but you were stuck at home and couldn't really go out and enjoy the notoriety it really was. Really strange, it was like such an adjustment because it came out and we heard all these numbers: you're like 82 million people in the first month and you go, I can't calculate that, and then you go back into the world becoming so much more recognizable.

I was like, oh, okay, I think, oh, sure, this is a pretty big show, so yeah, but you're also very well known for your accent, so you have a very appropriate accent, like Regency London, yeah, and then. Of course you also have the Dairy Girls, yeah, how did you practice the accent? Well Dairy Girls was Nadine Co, she was my point of reference so it was easy for Bridget and although I did a lot of voice overs as a kid that's okay so I did a lot of cartoons and stuff and there was no demand for accents Irish in the past, so they needed kids who could do UK accents and American accents, so Bridget you did quite easily, but then in good spirits I didn't have an accident, which was amazing.

I thought she's fine, I got this. I don't need to prepare. I don't need to be cool so I think it's always worth it, let's listen to Nadine K and we'd love to make your Dair work. I think this is where you learned your milky accent absolutely yes yes yes it's my passport in K Daddy it's amazing and in that scene of course she was caught having given the wrong date of birth she was too young to be making stars from pop, but she understood and that's how you basically taught yourself, yeah, I didn't really know many people from Dair, so she was the one who I said, oh yeah, Nadine Cole, I can understand that, so yeah, I saw a lot of videos with her, but she says.

Not a good impression, I say, oh, I'm not an impressionist. I can't really make a good impression. It was a good starting point for me for the accent and we also have to talk about Barbie. It must have been amazing. experience crazy crazy I love gr gr so much I've loved her since Francis ha because all she does is Magic um I auditioned for it and then I was filming, I was going to cut into the filming of Bridgeton, so basically it was like We wouldn't do it. I think you can do anything in this movie and they said, but would you like to do a little bit?

I was like, Obviously I'll do a little bit, yeah, that's crazy, you'd even ask it and it was amazing to be on that set with All those people liked the day I went to my costume fitting wearing Goling shirtless, no, I was about to do the big Ken, he was doing that in the car with the fur coat and yeah, did you meet him? I met him. at the premiere, okay, but that day I felt too intimidated to talk to him, the prime minister came up, shook my hand and kissed me on the cheek. You're great in the movie and I thought you don't need to do this.

Ryan Goling you need to talk to me, yes we were all lined up backstage it felt like a school assembly it was so much fun everyone was chatting and saying can you please stop talking? Frell stood there and I was saying, what am I doing? She's incredible here, absolutely brilliant and the reaction to that has also been kind of, I mean, it's groundbreaking, it's a testament to how incredible Margo is as a producer and obviously she's an incredible actress, but she's so smart that the film wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for her, it was her production company.

Lucky, they brought it to Mattel and yes, she is amazing. Barbie 2. Are you going to make Barbie 2? Would you do it? I mean, I honestly said I wrote him an email and said, If you want me to come and make tea on this set, clean FL, I'll be there, so yeah, if he ever asked me to do something, I'd be there in a heartbeat. and close my eyes, yes, incredible, it's a pleasure to see you, big guy, tonight. He's coming home to you, yes Bud, he's coming home to you, it's a going away gift, that's exactly what we've done.

Lady Whistle Down can have whatever she wants, yes, perfect, thank you, it's on channel 4 tonight 10:00 10:00, thank you. I love her, but he's ready to leave, by the way, take the car, let's go, thank you, thank you very much.