Bridgerton lovers Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton admit they planned their intimate on-screen moments by sharing favourite sex scenes as Netflix period romp returns for third season

They're backmost for nan eagerly anticipated 3rd bid of Netflix play play Bridgerton. 

But it will each alteration for Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton erstwhile respective characters Lady Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton yet move relationship into thing much intimate. 

Penelope's yearming, unrequited emotion for nan dashing Colin has been 1 of nan show's cardinal storylines passim play two, and fans tin expect plentifulness of unrestrained passion erstwhile it returns on May 16. 

Speaking to nan May integer version of Town & Country, erstwhile Derry Girls prima Coughlan, 37, admitted they pre-planned nan friendly scenes by comparing their favourite activity scenes from movie and television. 

She said: 'Having a agreed beforehand was very important to us... I really loved nan 1 from Atonement, and it’s chaotic erstwhile you watch that back, really small you really spot and really overmuch is successful your imagination.' 

Co-star Newton, 31, added: 'There was ne'er a thought of "Oh, let’s make this look really sexy" aliases "Let’s make this a really romanticist scene." It was just, "Let’s enactment existent to these characters."' 

After spending overmuch of their surface clip successful a stop-start relationship fraught pinch unexpressed emotions, he admits nan activity scenes will bespeak their chemistry by being 'awkward and quirky.' 

'There’s joke successful it, wherever they conscionable laughter astatine each different and it’s truthful genuine,' he added. 'It really has a consciousness of showing their relationship from nan start. Me and Nic wanted to grant that and support that successful nan show.' 

Despite nan prolonged quality of their characters' processing romance, Coughlan insists nan surface modulation from friends to lovers felt wholly natural. 

'I I don’t want to opportunity [we did] nothing. We worked difficult together, but we didn’t person to do thing convoluted,' she explained. 

'We had been holding backmost for 2 seasons! I was playing a characteristic that was successful emotion pinch him and he was meant not to notice. 

'So for me, yet having nan attraction reciprocated betwixt nan characters meant they conscionable unlocked thing caller for us. 

'And convey deity we’ve had that instauration of relationship and spot pinch 1 another, because I genuinely can’t ideate doing with personification else.'

Coughlan besides believes her adjacent off-screen relationship pinch Newton’s was nan cardinal to unlocking Penelope and Colin’s friends-to-lovers romance. 

'The things that Penelope loves astir Colin are, weirdly, nan things I emotion astir Luke: his kindness, what a good, caring personification he is, his respect for women,' she added. 

Returning nan compliment, Newton added: 'You’re sat successful nan occupation for truthful agelong that you can’t ever ideate anyone other playing [Penelope]. It’s not moreover thing that I tin describe. She is that characteristic to me.' 

Bridgerton bid 3 portion 1 streams connected Netflix from May 16, bid 3 portion 2 from June 13. The  May integer version of Town & Country is retired now.