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Nicola Coughlanalmost traded Regency-era London for 1980s Hawkins, Indiana.
“I auditioned to play Robin, Maya Hawke got it. She was far better than I ever would have been,” Coughlan explained. “It’s a good lesson to actors: Watch the stuff you didn’t get, because you’ll totally understand how it’s not personal.”
Hawke, 23, joined theDuffer brothers' nostalgic sci-fi series with season 3 in 2019, playing a coworker ofJoe Keery’s Steve Harrington at the mall’s ice cream parlor, Scoops Ahoy.
She previouslytold PEOPLEthat she’s grateful for the career advantage of beingEthan HawkeandUma Thurman’s daughter, but she won’t rely on those connections alone.
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“I’m very grateful for the fact that they made it so easy for me to do the thing that I love,” Hawke said in May 2021. “I think I’ll get a couple chances on their name and then if I suck, I’ll get kicked out of the kingdom. And that’s what should happen. So I’m just going to try not to suck.”
Coughlan ultimately landed on her feet, recently returning as Penelope Featherington (a.k.a. Lady Whistledown) in season 2 ofBridgerton. TheShondalandseries becameNetflix’smost-watched serieswhen season 1 premiered last year, and season 2 had the biggest opening for any English-language series on the streaming platform.
“You’re just right for some things, and you’re not right for other things,” Coughlan added.
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TheDerry Girlsactress previouslyteased PEOPLEabout what’s to come with Penelope in season 2, following a major reveal in the season 1 finale.
“You had that moment at the end of season 1, where you get the reveal. And now you get to see everything behind that,” Coughlan said last month. “What she gets up to and how she sort of gets away with it and very nearly doesn’t get away with it. It was so much fun to film.”
source: people.com
