Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan Tries 9 Things She's Never Done Before

I'll tell you a good fact,

that dress smelled really weird.

The butterfly fabric smelled like tweed.

[zany music]

[cheerful music]

I just start with the eyes.

Oh, this is very soft pencil.

The problem is, I'm gonna take this too seriously.

I'm gonna be here for two and a half hours

and everyone's gonna have gone home

and they'll be like... [Nicola groans]

I used to draw pictures of like my idols,

when I drew like the Olson twins and Avril Lavigne

and I still, they're in my mom's house,

I can't bear to throw them out.

But would that be like really weird

if I met them and I were like, I used to draw you.

Hello...

I was gonna say, my eyes are not the same size,

but they're not the same size in real life either,

so like actually that's a win.

I don't think there's any blue in this kit.

So they're gonna have to decide

what color eyes to give myself.

She's not me, but I went, oh...

Anyway, we move.

Oh God, okay, hairband, hairband, hairband.

Okay, oh no!

Okay...

Oh geez!

Oh, the panic's set in.

Just gonna go for the glitter.

If all goes wrong,

just throw glitter at the problem, you know?

This also looks very...

Oh, sparkly eyes.

Oh, I forgot the top of my head.

It doesn't really look like me, but there it is.

Sign it.

[uplifting music]

What makes it even tougher

is that it says three plus on the box.

So if I do really badly,

it's gonna be a real shot to the old self-esteem.

Okay, corner pieces.

We're going down here, we're going here.

Where's the other one?

[Nicola yells]

Oh my Lord, this is stressful, 15...

This is impossible!

No!

Oh, why can't I see the other corner?

Oh, there you...

No, no, I had that one already.

Oh my God!

Okay, okay, corner...

[alarm buzzes] Tragic.

We have a tree, I made a tree.

You know, I got one side,

so that's about, you know, like 20% or something.

[cheerful music]

Oh god, these nails, okay.

Imagine if I just left it like this

just all black and white.

Does someone want this?

Does a fan want this?

It might be awful.

I'm like, should I pick Bridgerton specific colors

or should I just do rainbow?

Maybe this person's not even a fan of Bridgerton,

they just...

They just think I'm great.

I hope they like rainbow colors

'cause that's what you're getting.

Is there an order?

I just like purple, I think purple's my favorite color.

We don't have prom in Ireland,

we have, it's called the Debs,

which is actually short for debutantes ball,

which is very Bridgerton in and of itself.

But yeah, for my Debs, I had a purple dress made.

And I thought I was so fancy and so cool.

Actually, Claudia and I, who plays Eloise,

we both made each other...

Oh, Peneloise necklaces so I have,

yeah, one from myself and one from her.

I'm gonna do one more tie 'cause I just don't...

I don't trust it. [scissors snipping]

It's a little small.

Oh... [cheerful music]

It's cute.

[cheery music]

All right, I think I've smooched these ones

in a professional manner.

I think this is Luke Newton.

[bell chimes] That's Luke, okay.

This is the very beautiful

and wonderfully fragrant, Ncuti Gatwa.

This is my pal, my girl, my love, Jonathan van Ness.

This is Mr. Harry styles. [bell chimes]

These two, I'm not as sure of Donald Trump with lip gloss

is actually really bad if...

Cause it's not, I know that, it's not him.

Who have I said that about?

Oh, no. [alarm buzzes]

Is it Paul McCartney?

Oh, Paul McCartney, I've never looked

at your mouth close enough.

This is Kim K, I think.

Beyonce! [alarm buzzes]

Oh the Queen B, I am sorry.

I did not recognize your wonderful lips.

Let's go Simone even though I'm not really sure.

Simone Ashley.

Oh, it's Charithra Chandran.

Of course it's Charithra.

Oh my God both those girls are the most perfect faces.

I can't believe I called Paul McCartney,

Donald Trump with lip gloss.

Oh, no...

[upbeat music]

Let's do it. [paper rustling]

Okay, wonder if I could do like a song with it...

♪ Happy, blue, sun, doll, gown ♪

♪ Happy, blue, sun, doll, gown ♪

♪ Cloud, award, cabbage ♪

♪ Cloud, award, cabbage ♪

♪ Happy, blue, sun, doll, gown ♪

♪ Cloud, award, cabbage ♪

♪ Debutante, grace, diamond ♪

It's a terrible song.

♪ Debutante, grace, diamond ♪

♪ Debutante, grace ♪

♪ Debutante, grace, diamond ♪

♪ Galway, theater, moon ♪

♪ Galway, theater, moon ♪

♪ Galway, theater, moon, Galway, theater, moon ♪

Shall I go?

Happy, blue, sun, doll,

cloud, award, cabbage.

Grace, Galway, theater, moon.

I've missed one or two. [alarm buzzes]

Debutante, grace, and diamond.

[lively music]

[blindfold shuffling] Okay...

Okay and I'm not gonna do like the cheaty thing

of like feeling for the edge of the thing

'cause that's just...

That's just for cowards.

Feel...

Okay and then I got a little like there.

[feather shuffling]

Okay...

Could be better, could be worse, you know?

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[relaxing music]

A posh British.

Well it depends if you want to go regency,

or you wanna go like modern

'cause they say stuff like party,

I'm gonna go to a party.

And it's sort of mixed with Americans.

All the T's become D's, darling.

[papers shuffling]

All right, oh, I'm terrible at Texas.

Howdy, partner.

That's all you're getting.

Oh, so bad.

Oh, it's so bad.

New York, I'm...

What I'm gonna do is gonna be more New Jersey

'cause of The Housewives but I'm not very good at it.

Lemme tell you something about my family,

we are thick as thieves.

Scottish, I did have to do Scottish

for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

but it's quite difficult

because also then it goes into Northern Irish.

If you go too far west, it becomes Northern Irish,

'cause they're quite similar.

Valley girl, okay, no, my favorite thing about Valley

is like you can't have any emphasis.

You have to be like, I am so excited.

This is literally the greatest day of my life.

French, it is sort of...

I knew the French guy one time and he said,

Oh, the main thing I miss about France is I miss my butter.

I love my butter.

Irish butter is better, sorry, not sorry.

Australian, I find Australian quite hard.

I have a friend Ayman who's Australian

and he says the main thing is have a really lazy mouth

but I don't find it easy.

But I do love to say nor, nor.

I love the word for this cloche.

It's very fun to say, cloche.

Okay, so it's coriander where I'm from

and you guys call it cilantro,

and the first time I had it was in America.

I was 19, I was in San Francisco.

I was like, what is this delicious flavor?

I'm a cilantro lover, not a hater, delicious.

What is she?

I think it's an ice lolly.

What would you call it?

I don't know, I have no clue.

I thought I'd be good.

Ice pop? [alarm buzzes]

Popsicle, this is nice.

Popsicle, that's a cute word.

I like it more as an ice lolly.

[cheerful music]

Oh, I love these so much.

I mean I would just call them pickles.

I mean some people call them gherkins

but I would just refer to this as a pickle.

Good tip, if you can't open one of these,

you don't need no one with strong arms.

You just gotta get a little spoon

and get it in there until you hear it pop

and then you'll get it off.

It's a good life hack trick to know.

Love a pickle.

Okay...

[cloche tapping]

Well, I would call it sweets

but I think this is just various candy.

What's a York?

I don't...

We don't have that.

Exciting, what's this little green man?

Jolly Rancher, I've heard of these, I've never had one.

Shall I try one?

Green apple, I do like green apple flavor.

I'm not a sweetie girl, I'm more of a savory girl.

Oh my God, do you remember the Mandy Moore song Candy?

It was such a good song.

That's good but it's very chewy and now I've committed, bum.

I like that.

I'll be back in an hour when I finish eating this.

[cloche lifting]

That's not what I was expecting to see.

It's raw meat.

It's...

Well, I would call it ground mince.

Is there a different name for it here?

I did not know there was a different name for here.

I mean, I watch a lot of like

cooking videos on the internet.

What do people call it?

Ground...

Ground beef, just ground beef?

Yeah?

Okay, fantastic.

My first thought was brains

but it was unlikely that it was brains, let's be real.

Let's cover that over I think is...

All right, it's oats.

Oats is a perfect name for this,

why is there a different name?

If it was prepared fully.

Oh, you call it oatmeal, don't you?

You don't call it porridge at all?

What?

You learn something new every day.

Let's give her a name, so this is Yolanda.

You know hairdressers like, Yeah, no, do you know what?

Do you know what, it'd be lovely on you is,

if you just cut that bit there be so light.

Look at that in the mirror.

Yeah, you'd be gorgeous.

We'll cut it for you darlin',

you'd be absolutely beautiful.

Okay, let's give you a little bang.

We're just going in confident.

Yeah, that's gonna be fine.

Nice and thick.

Nice and girthy actually that's cute.

You can see your eyes now, amazing.

Do you have any nice plans for the summer?

You going on holidays are you?

You'll have a great time with the kids.

Yeah, it'll be lovely.

I don't think I would've been a good hairdresser.

Do we wanna curl it?

How do you feel?

Are you feeling like a curl today?

I remember as like a teenager

getting my hair done and hating it so much that I would cry

but I could never ever tell...

Actually, I don't think I could still.

I think if they shaved half my head I'd be like,

I love it.

Everyone should have a bob moment

at least once in their life.

I think I need to do more, slightly more bang-age.

I mean, thank God this isn't real life

'cause she would have an eye infection

from all the hair going into it.

I think she's looking incredible.

Do you know when they do?

Do you know when they do this bit?

I don't know what I'm doing, I'm just doing that

'cause that's what they do.

They're like, Yeah, great, great.

And then they do this in the mirror.

What's that about?

I dunno.

She's a new woman.

Thank you so much, Allure,

I had a great time trying all these things.

It was a joy. [cheery music]