Swapping teen silliness for the high society of Bridgerton, the actor talks representation, activism and doing chores for her mum
Aw, feck it! We’ll just say it’s Christmas now!” It is mid-November and Nicola Coughlan has once again tapped into the mood of a nation. Or rather two, historically connected, nations: the Ireland she is from and where she resides – she’s speaking from the back bedroom of her mother’s Galway home – and the UK, where she’s been enthusiastically embraced as goodie-two-shoes Clare Devlin from the Channel 4 sitcom Derry Girls. Coughlan was back at her London flat last week, putting up the tinsel: “I’m like, this has been a hard year, and Christmas, for most of us, is just gonna be stuck in our houses. So, let’s make our houses look cute! Why not?”
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