How 'New Girl' Inspired Nicola Coughlan & Luke Newton's Steamy Kiss in 'Bridgerton' & More

people were like what does she saw that

Nick was saving them yeah no way yeah

they saw yeah stop it that's the best

thing i' yeah and they were like why is

she saving this what does it mean them

to send Luke at a convenient time cuz we

have a giggle hello we are the cast of

Bridgeton I'm Nicola cin I'm Luke Newton

and I'm Claudia Jesse and we are in

studio with Hollywood

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Reporter well hello guys thank so much

for being here congratulations season 3

is finally out there for the entire

world to see how does that feel because

I know a lot of people have been

patiently awaiting this matchup so what

emotions are going through your head

right now weirdly when I woke up this

morning I sort of forgot I went to check

my text and obviously you know we mostly

live in London so it's not a very

different so everyone was wake up when I

was looking and then someone text me

like congratulations out and I was like

oh my God how did I forget yeah crazy so

I did want to ask how do you think

season 3

UPS the steaminess and the romance

compared to the past two seasons or how

do you think that it's different

entirely I think it just again like

previous Seasons just feels really true

and appropriate to their love story it

feels yeah you know we had sort of that

longingness of last season where they

didn't quite get there whereas Colin and

Penn have had a connection since we

first saw them in season one so it's

like about time do you feel like you

guys had a leg up chemistry-wise because

you did have that opportunity to build

up the real life friendship off camera

for a number of years now yeah

absolutely what's the question

sorry did we have did we have a leg up

from building the chry I think so yeah I

think so and it I don't think it could

have been any other way like we needed

that history not only that we've

experienced as a couple but also as the

audience has come along with us for that

whole ride I feel like sometimes you

watch a show and like someone goes those

actors didn't get on you go yeah you can

of tell but with us like we genuinely

have such a love for each other that you

know it made it really easy and also I I

was talking with claud's about this but

I was saying like how like for me I had

you know there's always like life and

art imitating one another and stuff but

for me like for this season like

Penelope's confidence was growing in her

finding herself in a relationship and

stuff my confidence grew in finding

myself in my work and being a leading

lady I think our relationship grew not

as like friends to lovers but it grew

and that we had we developed such a

closeness this time that we always got

on really really well but we have a very

different relationship to what we had

you know before we started this season

and it's been beautiful and we've such a

strong we're such a strong unit within

this that it's been amazing yeah well I

wanted to ask Claudia you're you're the

trio to this to this group right here no

it's you think it's weird I love it

because the the three of you are so

important to this season and of itself

so I wanted to ask what was it like to

kind of take on a more elevated role

this season and ALS Al watch these two

take up the leading mantle gross what

disgusting did you how did you feel

watching a snugg

in she said I don't want to answer that

on camera um like okay I can the thing

is as a as a bunch like the Lo we're

well proud like obviously season one

we're introduced to the to Bridgeton

season two obviously we knew Johnny and

he did a beautiful job and then we were

introduced to the amazing Sharma family

but this is obviously we've known these

guys for ages and then for us as actors

we're like watching our best mates like

lead the show so we're

like and then they have sex and stuff so

then you're

like like it is weird it's weird but

we're most like it's mostly Pride well I

wanted to follow up on Eloise's

storyline this season I feel like she's

having a rough time right now she's on

the outs with her friend she's watching

all of her siblings fall in love what do

you think it's going to take for her to

maybe open herself up to not only love

but happiness I feel like she's just

like in the trenches right now yeah I

think there's a really interesting uh

school of thought that happens with

Eloise sometimes that because she's so

um defiant in in in her idea of what she

thinks she should have and what she

wants that that somehow means she's

anti- love Yeah and I don't I don't know

if that I think that's true and what I

loved about season 2 was that we were

able to see that she could have a

connection with someone like with the

with with Theo the printer I just think

right now she wants the choice and right

now she's got other priorities cuz she's

got this big secret and she's got her

brother and her ex best mate and all of

that I think there's a lot going on for

her yeah are we all

friends friends well Luke I wanted to

ask you I saw there's been a lot of

memes asking about what kind of boot

camp they're putting these Bridgerton

men through is there a Bridgerton boy

boot camp there's not

no there's not like a nothing really

happens I don't know what it is I guess

like part of growing up in the show and

and just leaning into the scripts I

guess I like I read the very first line

when Benedict says under what foreign

son did you apparently get so sturdy so

I was like okay time to get a little

sturdy whatever that means in whatever

capacity I can so yeah just dived into

that and wanted to portray this new

version of Colin I think like the almost

the best part of his transformation is

that he didn't need to transform it all

because pen has always loved him for who

he is in his soul because he's kind and

he's sweet and he's caring and he's he's

funny and he's not the coolest and it's

yeah come

on and he actually is and I think he's

really cool now we're going to head into

the second portion called tea time with

Bridgerton you're each going to get a

teacup and saucer we're going to ask you

a series of questions and if you

absolutely do not want to answer it you

can just sip take a sip of tea who is

the best Regency Era dancer in the

cast oh newon it's n it you're very

about the dog thank you she stepped in

this year and was like she's a

professional dancer but I think she

she's a professional Dan she had she had

too much of an advantage yeah that's

true we have one scene in F six I want

to say where we danced together and we

watched back we were like that was

incredible that we did that cuz we were

like it was quite complic

and we were doing like like a lot of

dialog and I'm like we rehearsed a

lot for who is the worst dancer in the

cast wow oh my good God that's when we

use isn't it Luke and Nicola you've said

you broke some furniture while filming

certain scenes can you disclose what

piece of furniture it

was

no we've kept it secret for so long now

that I'm like no one has guessed it yet

no one has guessed it no way the

craziest guess we've had Candlestick and

I'm like what do you mean what do they

mean what are you doing in your house

crazy so no one like no one in the cast

knows either I don't know if they do I

feel

like I do yeah oh you've seen it yeah of

course you do like how you oh yeah

yeah blink twice if it had to do with a

mirror well well that's a difficult one

one BL maybe there was one in the room

yeah there is one

that's as a writer or a poet dare I say

I think Penelope would be a big fan of

Taylor Swift's new album The tortured

poets Department what would Penelope's

favorite song off the album be what with

host Malone fortnite fortnite yes that

would okay I was I was going to say

who's afraid of little old me oh yes

I've seen that one I feel like I've seen

some I've

seen okay okay Luke how many thirst trap

Tik toks of Colin Bridgerton have you

watched

what the hell does this mean so it's

like a thirst trap is like a sexy video

or if you if you fancied someone you

might put a hot picture of yourself

online to be like hope they see it but a

thst trap Tik Tok but I send him loads

so see them multiple I don't know the

number I but I'll find like

funny I was not on my algorithm

whatsoever so it's basically like you

don't search it just whatever comes up

comes up got it so I like I'll save them

and send them to him but then I didn't

know that you could see yeah save them

so then people were like what dides she

sa saw that Nick was saving them yeah no

way yeah they saw yeah stop it that's

the best thing I've yeah and they were

like why is she saving this what does it

mean them to send Luke at a convenience

yeah cuz we have a giggle you get a

notification or fans get a notif know

that I know now oh that's W okay sweet

how many pollen fan edits have you seen

oh million

we s to each other all the time we got

we got really emotion about that one the

other day we were in Verona we were

actually watching them I was like you

watch this is pretty beautiful it's like

seeing their whole journey it's like

never seen I haven't watched back season

one and two in ages so it just is like

memory if you could name someone in

Hollywood to be the diamond of the

Season who would you pick oh Cy C

Keys C I want to do a good answer oh no

I I'm C at things like this we'll give

you a minute okay I know who I'm going

to say because I really want her to play

Queen Charlotte on SNL Maya Rudolph yeah

it makes sense it makes sense so her

yeah I love her yeah correct agreed I'm

not going to single anyone out go I'm

using my thing I'm using my thing back

yeah you you haven't used it as much so

I've got one I've ear one pass what is

your favorite friends to lovers movie

When Harry Met s that's my favorite as

well that's a good

yeah classic we need more Billy Crystal

type men and movie R yes can I go TV

show yeah go TV show yeah cuz I'm said

it before but Ross and Rachel because I

think they replicate how like well they

don't replicate we replicate how they we

were

first how they uh how Colin and Pen just

never it never works out at the right

time they're constantly missing each

other and there's obstacles in the way

were they on a break yeah they were on

they they were on on a break you

better believe they were on a

break do you think no say not on a break

think they were on a break you

definitely wouldn't have thought they

were on a break uh Jess and Nick from

new girl I think because also that's

mine and Nicholas's favorite on screen

kiss

yes I love that kiss so much I've

watched him do interviews about that

kiss when like Liz Maryweather the

creator of the show was he was giving

him notes and he was like you don't need

to tell me how to kiss a woman lives on

the floor was on the

floor that kiss was in our group chat

when we were discussing the first I was

sending him yeah we were send each other

like sexy scenes sounds weird it's not

it's not it's just what it is so Jess

and Nick was inspiration for pollen well

yes but not for the F the first kiss it

would that wasn't right for that yeah we

have another one in episode I'm going to

whis yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that's

more that who's bridg Love Story are you

hoping to see

next the Netflix snipers are there with

the guns we answer that I think can we

do a trio sip Cheers Cheers everybody

Cheers Cheers what is the primary force

that guides us along our

paths is it our minds or our Hawks

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