"Bridgerton" star Nicola Coughlan says the ups-and-downs of her character's long-anticipated romance with a high society noble are not over. The second half of the period romance's third season, beginning Thursday, will dive into the newly minted engagement of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington, played by Luke Newton and Coughlan During a recent promotional stop in Toronto, the duo teased that more drama awaits in four remaining episodes that will also focus on Featherington's struggle to maintain her secret identity as "Lady Whistledown," the name behind a scandalous gossip newsletter. “We filmed these beautiful romantic scenes and it was all wonderful and nice, and then I go, ‘Oh God she hasn’t told him’,” Coughlan says of the upcoming episodes.
“(It was) very stressful. I know that sounds really silly because it’s not real but I really hate lying, I’m a bad liar.” Still, the stars of the Regency era saga say their characters' shifting relationship from friends in the first and second seasons to lovers in the third is satisfying to put on display.
“There’s just like a beautiful sense of closeness and intimacy. And I want to say they’re being completely honest with each other, aside from the Whistledown stuff,” says Coughlan, a native of Galway, Ireland. Download the CTV News App for breaking news alerts and video on all the top stories Previous seasons focused on newly introduced couples, but already having an on-camera dynamic in some for.
