It's Official: “Polin’s” Chemistry In 'Bridgerton' S3 Is Unreal
We’re all about the friends-to-breaking-furniture pipeline.
Season 3 of the hit Netflix series, Bridgerton, is here the sex scenes are all anyone can talk about.
If you’re new here, Penelope Featherington (played by Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (played by Luke Newton) are the next couple of the ‘ton — aka “Polin.” Following the release of the first four episodes, fans were not swayed by Colin’s sex appeal or bad boy nature. However, some fans have seemingly come around following a new six-minute sex scene.
Watching Polin get the Pride and Prejudice treatment on their wedding day….everyone in the room disappears and all they see is eachother….I am healed 🥹 Penelope Bridgerton, you are the moment 💐 pic.twitter.com/11E66JQREd
— Jennifer Lopez (@jenlopez_) June 13, 2024
Before the season launch, Coughlan told E News, “We had to kind of hold back on the chemistry for the first two seasons,” and then it was like when we were ready to unleash it, we were like, ‘Here you go!’”
Since its 2020 release, Bridgerton has dominated sex scene discussions. According to Jaimee Bell, erotic story writer and producer at Bloom Stories, the show has mastered three important elements of sex scenes. “The buildup, tease” and most importantly, “centering female pleasure.”
Impressively, Coughlan reveals that chemistry came naturally. ”Luke and I had a real hand in what we did and how it came across,” she shared. “We decided what we wanted to show and how we wanted to choreograph the scenes. We had agency and we could let it flow. Thankfully, we had that physical comfort with one another – so it ended up being a really beautiful thing.”
Newton, who plays Colin chimed in: “It was natural. We didn’t have to do anything to like ignite that. It was kind of like these characters had got there over a long period of time — they talk of Colin and Pen as the slow burn romance — but really when we got there…”
unfortunately for my sanity, this dance between penelope and lord debling is fucking laced with something and i feel like the whole scene will change me as a person #BridgertonS3 pic.twitter.com/jxCdLkxRNm
— HOLLIE (@ewaudreyhorne) May 3, 2024
According to Coughlan, the pair is in their own friends-to-on-screen-lovers pipeline as they’ve been dance partners and now, do the deed on camera. “We’ve actually been dance partners for five years,” Coughlan told E! News. “So we had a certain physical comfort level with each other which helps immensely.”
this is the BEST bridgerton love confession. do you know how important it is for colin to acknowledge his envy?? TO ADMIT IT TO PENELOPE??? in an age where men are always expected to be superior to their wives? his honesty, vulnerability, and humility? BEST. HUSBAND. EVER. pic.twitter.com/A1pAlPQ58J
— rumi | may post part 2 SPOILERS (@cieduoti) June 13, 2024
Oh and as for that rumor that they broke furniture while filming a sex scene, Coughlan replied: “Yeah, hell yeah we did.”
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