{"id":331240,"date":"2025-12-06T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331240\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:25:07","slug":"true-activism-has-to-cost-you-something-bridgertons-nicola-coughlan-on-politics-paparazzi-and-parasocial-fandom-nicola-coughlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331240\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018True activism has to cost you something\u2019: Bridgerton\u2019s Nicola Coughlan on politics, paparazzi and parasocial fandom | Nicola Coughlan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2008, when Nicola Coughlan<\/a> was at drama school, a guy in her class swaggered over and, with all the brimming confidence of young men in the noughties, asked her, \u201cDo the Irish think the English are really cool?\u201d Coughlan, born in Galway, mimes processing the question. \u201cWell,\u201d she said, \u201cit\u2019s quite complicated. Like, there\u2019s a lot of history there, between the two countries. Like, there\u2019s a lot going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Today, people are more knowledgable about the history of the English in Ireland. Coughlan is happy about that. She\u2019s also happy about the explosion of Irish storytelling in popular culture \u2013 Normal People<\/a>, Trespasses<\/a>, Small Things Like These<\/a>, not to mention the series that made her name, Derry Girls<\/a>. And she\u2019s proud of young Irish actors \u2013 Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan and Lola Petticrew, to name a few. She listens to bands such as Fontaines DC, CMAT and Kneecap. \u201cIt\u2019s such a small country and the amount of creativity that comes out of Ireland is really extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n

But now there\u2019s a different kind of English guy, the one who swaggers over \u201cto explain Irish history to you through the music. I\u2019m like, \u2018No, no. I know all of that.\u2019 Like, \u2018I know why [Kneecap] is wearing a balaclava, yes. I know why all of it.\u2019\u201d And then there\u2019s the person who congratulates her for having an elected leftwing female president in the form of Catherine Connolly<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Our third. Our third female president. And by the way, Michael D Higgins, her predecessor, is incredibly leftwing. And a poet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Depending on your viewing tastes, Coughlan is either most recognisable as Clare Devlin from Derry Girls, the sublime comedy about Catholic teens set in the Troubles in 1990s Northern Ireland, or Penelope Featherington from Bridgerton, the Jane Austen-meets-Gossip Girl Netflix juggernaut in which she plays a Regency debutante with a secret. She\u2019s become equally well known for her frankness \u2013 refusing, even under considerable pressure, to stop talking about Gaza<\/a> or abortion<\/a> or trans rights<\/a>. She\u2019s also not going to apologise for not meeting societal expectations of what a starlet should look like.<\/p>\n

Video clip of actor Nicola Coughlan wearing a brown coat and furry hat, blowing in the wind<\/a>Hat: Awon Golding<\/a>. Coat: Nour Hammour<\/a>. Video: Rosaline Shahnavaz\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

This steel is arresting in person from such a fairy-cake package. She looks like a Norman Rockwell illustration of a child from the 40s or 50s, or an Eileen Soper book cover, blond with the rounded forehead of a china doll, fondant pink cheeks that blotch at times with emotion. And she\u2019s tiny, 5ft at a push, swamped in an oversized beige jersey. (She tells me that back when she\u2019d collect her niece and nephew from primary school, other kids would shout, \u201cWhy are you so short if you\u2019re an adult? Why do you look like that?\u201d)<\/p>\n

This morning, we\u2019re deep in the concrete block that is\u00a0London\u2019s National Theatre, discussing her latest project, The Playboy of the Western World. It\u2019s a play set in a pub in 1900s County Mayo and she\u2019s immersed in conversations with the other actors about \u201cthe contradictions of being Irish and the perceptions of Irish people and what it means to be Irish\u201d, she says. \u201cAlso to be part of a country that was colonised for so long, and had ideas imposed on it, but we\u2019re all sitting around speaking English in the British National Theatre.\u201d She\u2019s interested to see how audiences respond, and a little apprehensive. \u201cI read some reviews from when it was staged at the Old Vic in 2011 and they were like, \u2018No\u00a0one could understand a word!\u2019 You don\u2019t see anyone going to [Shakespeare\u2019s] Globe and writing, \u2018I couldn\u2019t understand anything.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Coughlan with her Derry Girls co-stars. Photograph: Peter Marley\/Channel 4<\/p>\n

On stage she\u2019ll be reunited with Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney \u2013 Sister Michael in Derry Girls \u2013 and directed by Caitr\u00edona McLaughlin of Dublin\u2019s Abbey theatre. The all-Irish cast accounts for the outbreaks of Gaeilge in the corridors, which Coughlan loves. \u201cI saw a report about how many young people are learning Irish<\/a> now. It\u2019s terrible to admit, but as a teenager, myself and my friends were like, \u2018Well, I can\u2019t use this language anywhere else, so why would I learn it?\u2019 Then as you get older, you realise it\u2019s your native language, and you feel ashamed that you can\u2019t speak it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s relieved to be doing something small and intimate after Bridgerton (the show is the reason a group of diehard fans are outside the stage door every day) \u2013 her first play since 2018. Bridgerton was already one of\u00a0Netflix\u2019s hugest shows, but an astounding 45.05 million viewers watched the first episodes of season three, the season in which Coughlan\u2019s character transforms from bashful and bookish into a ravishing goddess, which climaxed with her near six-minute nude\u00a0sex scene<\/a> (a record even for this bonkbuster).<\/p>\n

Imagine you\u2019re at the pub, having a lovely time. And a few days later, you see pictures of that. The violation is immense<\/p>\n

How she dealt with journalists\u2019 questions about doing a nude scene \u2013 given her voluptuousness \u2013 was instructive. She\u2019s done press tours with hundreds of interviews and, sure enough, each time, there it was nestled in among the anodyne and the technical. She tried batting it away, rejecting the label \u201cplus size\u201d, politely asking people to stop contacting her directly to offer their opinion on her curves. One night, doing a Q&A on stage in Dublin, she was asked about her \u201cbravery\u201d. \u201cYou know it is hard,\u201d she said, hand resting gently on her corseted waist. \u201cBecause I think women with my body type \u2013 women with perfect breasts \u2013 we do not see ourselves on screen enough.\u201d She paused to soak up the laughter from the audience. \u201cI am very proud to be a member of the perfect breasts community. I hope you enjoy seeing\u00a0them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The riposte captured both her come-off-it realness and the ludicrousness of what, until recently, has been considered acceptable to ask women in a PR back and forth. No wonder the clip<\/a> went viral. \u201cIt was a joke I\u2019d definitely made to friends,\u201d she says now. \u201cBut I\u2019d never said it in public. You know what [journalists] want to get out of you and you think, I\u2019m not going to give you that. I\u2019m just going be stupid in response.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photograph: Rosaline Shahnavaz\/The Guardian. Coat: Nour Hammour<\/a>. Shoes: Giaborghini<\/a>. Glasses: Jimmy Fairly<\/a><\/p>\n

Although Bridgerton was huge amounts of fun and she\u2019s proud of her work and adores all the cast and crew, it brought a landslide of attention, some of which, well, let\u2019s just say there\u2019s a specific type of parasocial fandom<\/a>. \u201cWith Derry Girls, people really enjoy the show, and say, \u2018I love that.\u2019 With Bridgerton, it\u2019s a different beast.\u201d Fans identified strongly with her character. They devoured theories about Coughlan and her co-star love interest Luke Newton, convinced they were a real-life couple concealing their marriage. They looked for clues in what she wore, what she posted, where she appeared, believing that, like Taylor Swift, Coughlan was telegraphing messages specifically to them \u2013 \u201cwhich I\u2019m definitely not. I definitely just put a jumper on and the colour doesn\u2019t mean anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Newton posted photographs of a summer holiday with his actual girlfriend, those fans felt cheated, called it a PR stunt, a hoax. They wrote wild posts and cancelled their Netflix subscriptions. \u201cThe maddest thing they thought was that I\u2019d had a secret baby and was hiding it,\u201d Coughlan says. \u201cI would like to go on the record and say, \u2018I don\u2019t have a secret baby.\u2019\u201d Then she sugars her tone, \u201cBut it\u2019s real in the show! They\u2019re married for ever in the show! They have a baby in the show!\u201d<\/p>\n

There was also acute public scrutiny of Coughlan\u2019s love life, partly because her boyfriend, the actor Jake Dunn, is 25 and she is 38. It was bad enough after paparazzi shots appeared of her with Dunn in the early days of their relationship (\u201cImagine if you had an evening at the pub and then you walked around, talking, having a lovely time. And a few days later, you see pictures of that. The violation is immense\u201d). But a widespread assumption that she had courted this publicity meant she was suddenly fair game for anyone with a cameraphone. She was photographed as she went about her day \u2013 shops, parks, restaurants, streets \u2013 the pictures uploaded online. \u201cPeople go, \u2018Oh, there\u2019s so-and-so from TV.\u2019 They forget you\u2019re a person.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Luke Newton in Bridgerton \u2026 Photograph: Liam Daniel\/Netflix\u2026 and with real-life boyfriend Jake Dunn. Photograph: Eamonn M McCormack\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Soon her world began to contract. Fans were trying to find out where she lived. They posted photos of her and Dunn in real time and she realised that they were being tailed. \u201cThat level of attention is hugely intense. And I don\u2019t know how well that suits me. The intensity gave me horrific anxiety,\u201d she says. \u201cI was like, \u2018I really want to go away.\u2019<\/p>\n

And also, because I\u2019m somewhat politically outspoken, I didn\u2019t know that people didn\u2019t mean me\u00a0harm. Work is one world and my private life is another. When one started collapsing into the other, I thought, oh my God, what\u00a0have I done?\u201d<\/p>\n

Her face goes pink and she apologises because she\u2019s trying not to cry but the tears are spilling over. And then she\u2019s apologising both because it genuinely stresses her out to think what might have happened if people had found out where she lived, but also because, look at her, she\u2019s being ridiculous, crying in the first interview she\u2019s done in a year. Then she\u2019s laughing and crying at the same time and telling me not to worry because I\u2019m scrabbling around in my Pret bag looking for a napkin.<\/p>\n

She cries all the time, she says, rallying. She cried last night, in fact, watching Married at First Sight because there was a couple so in love, but he lived in Brighton and she in Liverpool. She cried watching Oasis recently because they played Wonderwall and she hadn\u2019t realised until she heard it live that \u201cit\u2019s a fucking masterpiece\u201d.<\/p>\n

She touches the corner of her eye and picks up her point. A year later, she\u2019s still reflecting on the intensity of the Bridgerton<\/a> experience. It\u2019s made her think twice about her career trajectory. Only the other day, watching Wicked, she thought of Jonathan Bailey: \u201cYou are a movie star, like, you are literally huge, but I don\u2019t know that I could do that.\u201d And in the summer when she didn\u2019t get a part she\u2019d auditioned for in a big movie (they cast a man instead), she felt OK. \u201cIt sounds really saccharine, but I do really just want to work with nice people who want to make great things. Those are my guiding principles now. Because I am really sensitive and I can\u2019t work in bad environments. I\u2019m not built for it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photograph: Rosaline Shahnavaz\/The Guardian. Coat: Fendi<\/a>. Tights: Heist<\/a>. Shoes: Louboutin<\/a><\/p>\n

When Derry Girls first came out, Couglan\u2019s plan was \u201cto be myself in the public eye\u201d, and if anyone misunderstood, \u201cI\u2019d explain what I meant and it would all be fine.\u201d She learned quickly enough that the actual way to deal with trolls was \u201cto block and move on\u201d. These days she\u2019s retreated from social media and is mainly on the New York Times games app, trying to do the crossword in under 10 minutes. She uses her Instagram platform mostly to raise awareness and money for charity. Back in April she helped Not A Phase<\/a>, the charity supporting trans people, to stay open. \u201cI don\u2019t have a Twitter account on which to say \u2018I don\u2019t think blah blah blah\u2019, so I was like, well, maybe I should help raise money. And I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, she\u2019s also raised more than \u00a31.5m for relief for people in Palestine through organisations such as the Palestine Children\u2019s Relief Fund, ActionAid UK and Medical Aid for Palestine. She knew early on in the conflict that she had to do something, \u201cNot in a holier than thou way. I was just, like, no, I don\u2019t think I can stay quiet about [watching civilians being killed]. But no one was talking about it early on. People were very afraid to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of those she worked with \u2013 \u201cpeople with my best interests at heart\u201d \u2013 told her, \u201cYou could really damage your career doing this.\u201d Who, I ask? \u201cI feel bad saying who specifically. But that\u2019s the truth, I could. And I had to go, OK, I have to accept that. They said, \u2018You mightn\u2019t be able to do this, this and this [job].\u2019 And I thought, well, then I don\u2019t want to be able to do that, that and that. I can\u2019t throw away my moral conscience. True activism, it should cost you something.\u201d<\/p>\n

She started wearing a ceasefire pin to public appearances. \u201cPeople [on social media] really tried to be bullies about it and go, \u2018Shut up and stop talking.\u2019 And I was, like, well, no.\u201d She estimates that she lost a\u00a0quarter of a million followers on Instagram, which in\u00a0crude terms is money, because commercial deals are\u00a0often calculated on engagement numbers. \u201cSo it costs me\u00a0something. But that\u2019s a price I\u2019m very happy\u00a0to\u00a0pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Did she lose friends? \u201cI had difficult moments with friends, yes. With Jewish friends. It\u2019s untrue to conflate [support of Palestine] with antisemitism. All of these systems of oppression and hatred go hand in hand \u2013 antisemitism, Islamophobia \u2013 they\u2019re abhorrent and I reject them all. But it\u2019s a way of silencing people, to throw antisemitism as an accusation.\u201d She told those friends, \u201c\u2018There\u2019s no world in which I would not stand up as vocally for antisemitism.\u2019 And those are the more difficult conversations to have \u2013 the actual, real ones with people in your life. But you have to approach those with understanding, too. It must feel really intense. It must feel horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very easy to type something on social media and put your phone away. It\u2019s harder to show up<\/p>\n

She says she went on one of the London marches \u2013 she can\u2019t remember when exactly \u2013 but it was positioned as a \u201cpro-Hamas\u201d march by the government and some media, and resulted in \u201ca very difficult conversation\u201d with one particular friend. \u201cI was, like, \u2018I was there, literally. And it wasn\u2019t [pro-Hamas].\u2019 I can\u2019t speak for every single person at a march, obviously, but there was no space for that in the atmosphere I saw.\u201d She defends her decision to get out there. \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to type something on social media and put your phone away. It\u2019s harder to show up. All that is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coughlan was born just outside the city of Galway, the young child. Her father, Martin, was in the Irish Army and worked for much of his career for the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation on peacekeeping missions. Among the places he and her mother lived in the 70s and 80s were Jerusalem, Lebanon and Syria. Coughlan says her parents did not \u201cimpose dogma on us\u201d. But they did often talk about that time happily, about how much they loved their work. What Coughlan took from those conversations was \u201cboth my parents trying to help in practical ways\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although her father died five days before she was offered the part in Derry Girls, \u201cI hope that he knew I was on the right path.\u201d He came over to see her do a reading of Jess and Joe Forever<\/a> at the Old Vic. \u201cHe was almost like a theatre luvvie for that one night. He was in the bar at the Old Vic, and he was full of it. He was really excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

She jokes that as a child she parked herself in front of the TV, \u201cnever going outdoors\u201d (one reason, she adds, for her glass-like complexion \u2013 no sun damage). It was while sitting on the floor watching Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz that she first realised she wanted to act. From the age of nine she had a professional career \u201cdoing little bits\u201d. And even back then acting felt completely right. \u201cIt was like that true love feeling. When you\u2019re like, \u2018Everything makes sense.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Photograph: Rosaline Shahnavaz\/The Guardian. Coat: Moschino<\/a><\/p>\n

What was harder was convincing her parents that this could be a career. Her father had grown up on a farm and joined the army at 17. \u201cSo having a child that\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019m going to be a thespian full-time! That\u2019s how I\u2019ll pay my bills!\u2019 he was like, \u2018Jesus, oh my God, what?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The way she tells it, she was a handful at school. She remembers getting into a fight with the parish priest. She hated mass. \u201cA cruel and unusual punishment for an ADHD child. You\u2019re sat there listing to, \u2018Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return\u2019 and, like, having a fucking existential crisis every time. When I realised I never had to go back to mass, I was like, \u2018Brilliant!\u2019 The most uncomfortable seats you\u2019ve ever sat on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Incidentally, she was telling someone the other day why she hates Irish country and western music. \u201cWhich I\u2019m sorry to anyone who\u2019s a fan, but I literally have, like, a Pavlovian horror response to it, because it\u2019s what my dad used to play in the car on the way to mass on Sunday. So I hear it. I\u2019m like\u201d \u2013 she makes a noise like huuuurrr from the pit of her stomach \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s straight back to getting out of bed early on a Sunday, getting into the car, listening to country and western music and then having an existential crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

She followed her siblings to the University of Galway, studying English and classics because she liked the \u201csalacious\u201d aspect, \u201call the bacchanalia\u201d in Roman and Greek history. \u201cLess so the dates of wars.\u201d Afterwards, she went to the Oxford School of Drama for a foundation course, then on to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire\u2019s School of Acting for a master\u2019s. She wrote her thesis on improv in the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach.<\/p>\n

There followed a painful and very lean near decade while she waited for her acting career to take off. She did a series of jobs \u2013 as a waitress at Bill\u2019s in Ealing (\u201cDidn\u2019t love that\u201d) and at Snog in Westfield, Shepherd\u2019s Bush (\u201cMy worst job. People go to Westfield just to be terrible to other people\u201d).<\/p>\n

One of her favourite jobs was at Lush. \u201cI used to do all the bath bombs and stuff for little kids. I love kids.\u201d But even that had its low points. \u201cOne day a little girl said, \u2018When I\u2019m older, I want to work here.\u2019 Without a beat, her mum said, \u2018No, no, darling, when you\u2019re older, you\u2019ll have a better job than this.\u2019 I wanted to say, \u2018I have two degrees. I have no shame in what job I\u2019m doing. Why do you think I\u2019m less than you because I can only get this job?\u2019\u201d Twice she had to return home when she ran out of money. Once she was fired from a promo job with Coors Light because, she says, one of the reps freaked out at how young she looked.<\/p>\n

She still gets ID\u2019d \u2013 although it\u2019s been a few months now, so she wonders aloud if she\u2019s crossed the threshold for what it looks like to be 18. Earlier this year she was at a film festival discussing how she was first cast as 15-year-old Clare in Derry Girls when she was 30, and Barry Keoghan<\/a> piped up from the audience, \u201cWhat? How old is she now? Why does she look like that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Photograph: Rosaline Shahnavaz\/The Guardian. Styling: Aim\u00e9e Croysdill, assisted by Julia-Rose Stanbrook. Hair: Halley Brisker. Makeup: Sara Hill. Manicurist: Simone Cummings. Set stylist: Chloe Rood. Top, blazer and trousers: Dior<\/a>. Hat: Noel Stewart<\/a>. Shoes: Louboutin<\/a><\/p>\n

Coughlan has an immediacy of emotion that is both startling and entertaining. She says her brain goes off \u201cin 50 different directions\u201d and she can bring seemingly quite disparate subjects together without any fear of contradiction. She remembers now how she had no patience once she\u2019d grasped a concept at school. But as she got older, her high-speed approach became more difficult. For instance, she could only ever revise last minute. To learn her lines for her drama exams she locked herself in her wardrobe. \u201cLiterally. I remember sitting in the wardrobe going, \u2018Why can\u2019t you just do this normally?\u201d (She still learns lines in the makeup chair shortly before going on set.)<\/p>\n

But then there was the hyperfocus and the slight bewilderment that not everyone was as interested in certain topics as her. Left to her own devices she\u2019ll spending hours browsing gadgets on the internet \u2013 \u201cI have two air purifiers, two robot vacuums, two air quality monitors\u201d \u2013 or watching really dressed-up girls making sandwiches on TikTok while at the same time forgetting to eat. \u201cThat was a big thing living alone, that I would get no sense of how time would be passing.\u201d<\/p>\n

She talks animatedly about her two forthcoming projects \u2013 the latest of Dominic Savage\u2019s I Am<\/a> series and The Magic Faraway Tree alongside Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield \u2013 and I ask, was it better, in the end, to have found fame older? \u201cFor me, yes. I had to live in the real world and learn how to pay my council tax, etc. It made me aware and appreciative of what I have. I also know what\u2019s real and what\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will be the first Christmas in her life that Coughlan hasn\u2019t gone home to Galway \u2013 \u201cbecause of the play,\u201d she explains. But her ties to the city are strong. Her two best friends from school still live there and her family, of course. Her mum worries \u2013 \u201cOh my God, she\u2019s an Irish mother, she\u2019s programmed to worry!\u201d \u2013 but calls all the time. \u201cShe\u2019ll be like, \u2018Tell them to give you a day off. You tell them.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018It doesn\u2019t work like that, unfortunately.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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