Nicola Coughlan Talks Bridgerton “Color-Blind” Casting Concerns

Nicola Coughlan hopes that Bridgerton will endlessly aid to improve the way individuals consider about interval pieces.

The actress, who stars as Penelope Featherington on the hit Netflix drama collection, appeared on British daytime discuss display This Early morning on Tuesday, Jan. 12. For the duration of the check out, Nicola explained that her conversation with co-star Adjoa Andoh served her to comprehend the relevance of how their show dealt with casting individuals of shade.

“I’m speaking to Adjoa Andoh … who’s outstanding as Woman Danbury,” she reported. “I stated, ‘Color-blind casting, it is really terrific, it is really completely the proper issue.’ And she claimed, ‘Well, it’s not, in a way, because it kind of erases race and erases people’s struggles.’ And I thought, That had by no means transpired to me, hardly ever. And I assume the planet that we have established is a completely reimagined environment, is a fantasy.”

Irrespective of how it grew to become what it is, Nicola is very pleased that audiences have clearly embraced the eyesight of the display that is primarily based on the e book collection by Julia Quinn and also stars Regé-Jean Page as Simon, the Duke of Hastings and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton.

“I would say to persons, ‘You can watch Video game of Thrones, and you can absolutely suspend your disbelief that there are dragons in this entire world,'” she ongoing. “For Bridgerton, you can suspend your disbelief that we have a black queen and a black duke, and they are the most fantastic actors.”