“Don’t call me brave. I have a cracking pair of boobs. There’s nothing brave about that, that’s actually just me showing them off," she told TIME of the response to her nude scenes — and her body more generally.
"I’m a few sizes below the average size of a woman in the U.K. and I’m seen as a ‘plus-size heroine,'" she said. "Making it about how I look is reductive and boring."
Coughlan, 37, admitted that she “worked my arse off" to make Bridgerton's third season, so she's not on board with commentary being so focused on her looks. "I barely saw my family and friends, and people were just going, 'But your body' … I don't take it as nice."
"What if I was suddenly going to play a ballerina and lose a s— ton of weight, are you not going to like me anymore?" she questioned, calling the discussion overall "insane and so insulting.”
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