Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutBridgertonseason 2.
Peneloise Bridgertonviewers' favorite platonic portmanteau is seemingly no more.
We’re both very nerdy about our jobs in that way.
Nicola Coughlan and Claudia Jessie on season 2 of ‘Bridgerton’.LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX
So, those were real tears in that scene.
We were really caught up and hurt by it."
“But it was bound to happen,” adds Coughlan.
We knew the fallout was going to be bad, but it was very bad."
“I don’t think it’ll be insurmountable,” she reflects.
“That is one thing.
The reason for that is the fact that Eloise admires and has admired Lady Whistledown for so long.
She’ll probably end up being a bit impressed with her best friend.
“There’s so much to unpack,” Jessie expounds.
“She’s Lady Whistledown, that’s one thing.
She’s lied to her that entire time.
She writes about Eloise’s family.
She wrote about Eloise.
She wrote about Marina Thompson.
I don’t know how she’d be able to get over that quickly.”
But Coughlan is certain Penelope deeply regrets saying something so harsh, even if it is true.
“She almost immediately regretted it when the words came out of her mouth,” she says.
“In the next scene, she’s running around trying to find Eloise.
In that moment, that’s when the Featherington in her really popped out.
But Jessie says it’s precisely that closeness that prevented her from realizing the truth.
That’s what Eloise is thinking.
She’s like, ‘Penelope is my best friend.
She wouldn’t do this.’
It’s so loving and blind.
That’s why she can get away with it so tremendously.”
Now that Eloise knows the truth, what will she do with it?
Will she tell the Queen or worse, expose her former BFF to the entire ton?
Both Coughlan and Jessie are confident that despite her hurt, Eloise would never go so far.
“My instinct is no,” muses Coughlan.
“I would have to ask the writers, but I think they love each other too much.
I don’t think Eloise would ever do that to her.
I don’t think Eloise would betray her in that way.”
Adds Jessie: “I just don’t see it happening.
I can’t see it happening.
Someone else could, maybe Madame Delacroix.
But I just can’t see Eloise telling anyone.
She’d be like, ‘There’s nothing to gain here.'”
“I’m deeply invested in Peneloise,” concludes Coughlan.
But I don’t think I’m going get that wish.
