Luke Newton Reveals Funny Moment From Filming Intimate ‘Bridgerton’ Scenes With Nicola Coughlan

Luke Newton is opening up again about filming intimate scenes for Bridgerton.

The 31-year-old actor stars as Colin Bridgerton in the just released season three part two of the popular Netflix series.

In the season, there are some steamy scenes with co-star and on-screen love interest Nicola Coughlan. During a new interview with Men’s Health, Luke shared a funny moment from filming such scenes.

“You do selfishly think, ‘How am I going to look on camera?’ But I didn’t really think about that too much—until this funny moment when I was wearing my intimacy garment, which is just like a sock with a cup on it, sort of taped on you up in the front, and I saw myself in the mirror and started laughing,” Luke shared.

“I had a robe on, so I went to Nic and said, ‘Nic, I need to show you this before we do a take, because you’ll just laugh at me, and it won’t be this romantic, sexy scene anymore,’” he continued. “So I showed her and we had a bit of a giggle. Then when we actually did have to do the reveal on set, we were trying to suppress those giggles. In the end, it was actually fun. The production allowed us the time we needed. I think we shot one of those scenes over three days. And it’s quite a short scene—five minutes, maybe. But having that luxury meant there was no pressure. No ‘let’s go, let’s get on with it, let’s get to the next scene.’ It felt surprisingly relaxed.”

He also opened up about how their friendship helped ease the awkwardness of filming the intimate scenes.

“Initially, I thought it was going to be more uncomfortable. In your head, you imagine getting undressed in front of one of your close friends and then simulating sex with them, and of course you imagine it’ll be really awkward,” Luke said. “But we actually felt really comfortable because there was already a sensitivity from knowing each other through all these years—not just as Luke and Nic, but as the characters. Because their story is a friends-to-lovers story, there needs to be that history between them. And because of our friendship and our rapport on set, each of us could predict how the other person was going to play it, so there was more trust there.”

Previously, Luke and Nicola revealed if it was harder to shoot sex scenes with friends.

Nicola also just shared a photo of a casualty to a prop from them filming the scenes…