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Refashioned Hippie questions the "brave" label for Nicola Coughlan

Maggie Weber's Fixing My Millennial Brain series turns to Bridgerton and the scrutiny placed on women who lead screen romances.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 722,930 views a day, 7.1 times a normal first day on this channel (102,466).

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Nicola Coughlan answered a comment about being "brave" with a joke about being proud of her body. Maggie Weber has a question about why the actress needed a comeback at all: "Are we still at a point where we are calling heavier people brave for existing on camera?"

Her Refashioned Hippie Short has reached nearly half a million views in half a day. The conversation is unusually busy, too, with more than five times the channel's usual full first-day comments already posted.

This installment of Fixing My Millennial Brain revisits coverage of Coughlan's role as Penelope Featherington, whose romance with Colin Bridgerton, played by Luke Newton, takes center stage in Bridgerton's third season. Weber displays a Spectator article dated May 2024 and challenges its implication that the pairing is implausible because of body size.

She then recounts the Dublin interviewer's "brave" remark and Coughlan's response about women with her body type deserving to see themselves on screen. Weber's objection is to treating an actress's presence in a romance as something requiring special courage.

In the comments, viewers keep returning to a double standard: television routinely pairs larger men with thinner women without making the pairing a question of credibility. Others distinguish between appreciating Coughlan's quick response and wishing she had never needed to give it.

For Weber, this belongs to a broader examination of learned beauty standards. She says Fixing My Millennial Brain involves looking again at actors she once considered "bigger" in early-2000s media, asking how she accepted those judgments and how they still affect her.

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