Nicola Coughlan finds it 'insulting' when people label her as a 'plus-size heroine' given the fact that she's actually ' a few sizes below the average size of a woman in the U.K.'
"Making it about how I look is reductive and boring," the actress said of the response to her nudity in season 3 of the Netflix hit seriesJulia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.Nicola Coughlan arrives for the Time 100 Next event at Current at Chelsea Piers in New York on October 9, 2024.“Don’t call me brave. I have a cracking pair of boobs.
"What if I was suddenly going to play a ballerina and lose a s--- ton of weight, are you not going to like me anymore?" she questioned, calling the discussion overall "insane and so insulting.”There’s one scene where I’m very naked on camera, and that was my idea, my choice . It just felt like the biggest ‘f--- you' to all the conversation surrounding my body; it was amazingly empowering," she said.James Gourley/Getty
"I felt beautiful in the moment, and I thought: ‘When I’m 80, I want to look back on this and remember how f---ing hot I looked!'"PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
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