Whereas on The Graham Norton Present, the 37-year-old actress opened up in regards to the function, which she described as her first time taking part in an precise grownup.

“It was bizarre having to then play the romantic lead,” she stated of taking part in Penelope Bridgerton on Season 3 of the hit Netflix sequence. “It is a horny present. Plenty of horny issues occur in it, after which I spotted I used to be going to should do the horny issues.”

And whereas many viewers and the web alike had been right here for these horny scenes reverse co-star Luke Newton, her mother wasn’t precisely loving it.

“My mom was so mad at me about these scenes — as in the event that they had been my fault, so I did not go to the screening along with her,” she recalled through the London Night Customary.

Coughlan, in the meantime, has been open in regards to the vulnerability in these scenes, revealing earlier this yr that she personally requested to movie one particular “very bare” scene as a response to physique shaming that she’s skilled on-line.

“There’s one scene the place I am very bare on digicam, and that was my thought, my alternative,” she stated in a Could interview with Stylist. “It simply felt like the largest ‘f–k you’ to all of the dialog surrounding my physique; it was amazingly empowering.”

Coughlan continued, “I felt lovely within the second, and I assumed: ‘After I’m 80, I need to look again on this and bear in mind how f–king scorching I regarded!’”

She does have one stipulation in her contract, nonetheless, on the subject of these Regency-era love scenes — that she will get a PG-rated lower for her dad and mom to look at.

“It is actually written into my contract. Individuals suppose I am saying it as a joke,” she stated throughout an look on SiriusXM Hits 1. “I simply do not need to … We grew up Irish Catholic. That is simply not how we vibe.”