Nicola Coughlan stars in the hugely popular Netflix show Bridgerton (Make It Reign/PA)
Before Bridgerton’s release on Christmas Day last year, she admitted she feared the show would not be a hit.
Coughlan said: “Before Bridgerton came out, I knew it was coming out on the biggest streaming service in the world on Christmas Day but there was still a part of me that went, ‘Is anyone going to watch this and I need to get people to watch it’.
“So on Christmas day, I was going no-one has watched it, no-one will watch this show. I just fully had a moment where I was like, ‘it’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine, I’ve dedicated a year and a half of my life to it and I know hundreds of people put in so many months of their life into it but it is fine, no-one will watch it,’ and I’ve just accepted that.”