“Bridgerton” fans were finally able to experience a long-awaited scene between Colin (Luke Newton) and Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) in season 3 and the actors made sure it lived up to expectations. Warning, spoilers.
Warning, spoilers. The following paragraphs reveal plot elements from the first part of season 3 of “The Bridgertons Chronicles”.
Bridgerton fans were finally able to discover the first part of season 3, available since May 16 on Netflix. These first four episodes set up one of the most anticipated couples for readers of Julia Quinn’s novels, from which the series is based.
The romance between Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) finally takes shape and the two best friends will listen to their hearts and understand that there is more than friendship between them.
But this realization took time. If Penelope has always been in love with Colin in secret, the third Bridgerton son only understood her true feelings when he tried to help his friend find a suitable husband, which caused jealousy to arise in him over to the suitor Lord Debling.
Penelope and Colin finally admit their feelings to each other
We have to wait until the end of the fourth episode for Colin to finally confess his love to Penelope in the carriage which takes them home after a ball where the young Bridgerton prevents Penelope from accepting the marriage proposal from Lord Debling, who has understood that something was going on between the two.
After revealing his feelings to her, Colin kisses Penelope in the carriage in a sensual way. And the two let themselves be carried away by their passion, to the point of sharing a first moment of intimacy before they arrive in front of the Bridgerton house. There, Colin comes out and asks her to marry him.
“It was an exciting scene to write because it is the culmination of not only four episodes of waiting and tension, but also the two seasons that preceded it”confided the new showrunner, Jess Brownell, to AlloCiné.
This is an important scene from Julia Quinn’s novel but differs in the series. Indeed, in the book, this is when Colin Bridgerton discovers that Penelope Featherington is actually Lady Whistledown, the “Gossip Girl” of Bridgerton. And he chooses to marry her because he loves her and because he wants to protect her.
In the series, he is not yet aware of his secret at this time. “It seemed much too early in the story for him to know the truth, but we still wanted to honor this important passage as a moment where he begins to see Penelope in a different light.”explains Jess Brownell.
First moment of intimacy for Colin and Penelope
After being friends for two seasons, Penelope and Colin finally reveal their feelings for each other and rediscover each other with a different perspective. Friendship gives way to love, passion, sensuality and they share a first intimate moment of kisses and foreplay in the carriage. A moment that Nicola Coughlan, the interpreter of Penelope, dreaded at the beginning, as she told us:
“I was still thinking about it during the second season, because it was something that was going to happen in the near future, it was so intimidating. But in practice we have, fortunately, a wonderful friendship, a lot of trust and respect for each other, which allows us to communicate really well.
We also had an amazing intimacy coordinator who really made us feel in control of those scenes and we really wanted to make them that good. That’s been a big driving force for us.”
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For Luke Newton, who plays Colin Bridgerton, it was important to maintain the humor and lightness of the friendly relationship between Colin and Penelope, even if they become lovers, because that is what makes their duo strong:
“We also wanted to have fun because it really represents their friendship and their relationship, is them having fun with each other. And we think people appreciate that about them and identify with their So we wanted to keep it light, keep that romance, keep that sexiness, but also have fun with it and have them laugh and play together.”
After this first sequence of physical rapprochement between Colin and Penelope in the first part, fans expect their relationship to take a completely different turn. But we will have to wait for the second part of season 3 of Bridgerton – which comes out on June 13 – to find out.
Comments collected by Mégane Choquet on April 11, 2024.
The first part of season 3 of “The Bridgertons Chronicles” is available on Netflix.
