United Kingdom, March 5 -- Nicola Coughlan has criticised the focus on her body and the reaction to her nude scenes in Bridgerton, saying it was frustrating to see months of work reduced to comments about her appearance.

The 39-year-old actress said she had trained heavily ahead of filming but still found herself labelled "plus size".

She told the April 2026 issue of ELLE UK magazine: "When I was shooting that series, I was exercising a lot because I knew I had to, so I had lost a bunch of weight - I was probably a size 10 and one of the corsets was a size 8. And then people talked about how I was plus size and I was like, 'How f***** are we that I am the biggest woman you want to see on screen?'"

Coughlan said one encounter in a bathr...