Sam Phillips has revealed he felt a little uncoordinated after a dramatic scene on the set of Bridgerton.
The 40-year-old English actor, who plays Lord Debling in the period drama, saved Nicola Coughlan’s character Penelope Bridgerton from an errant hot air balloon.
“It didn’t go as planned,” Sam told Australian current affairs show The Project on Friday night.
“I had to do a scene where I had to jump in a hot air balloon. I had to do a kind of heroic jump to save Nicola’s character, Penelope,” he explained.
“Most of the time it felt like I was holding her in a headlock,” he added with a laugh.
“We had to do it six or seven times, maybe more. I was shocked at how ungainly I looked,” she said.
Nicola, 37, previously described the scene as quite difficult and said the pair had to learn stunts to pull it off.
“The hot air balloon scene was crazy because it wasn’t initially written as intensely as it actually was,” he said. Teen Vogue.
Sam Phillips (right) has revealed he felt a little uncoordinated after a dramatic scene on the set of Bridgerton. Sam appeared on The Project alongside co-star Jessica Madsen (left) on Friday night.
The English actor, 40, who plays Lord Debling in the period drama, saved Nicola Coughla’s character Penelope Bridgerton from an errant hot air balloon (pictured)
“It was like he was heading towards Penelope and Lord Debling was going to take her away. But then they said: No, we’re going to turn this into a total farce.”
She continued: ‘I thought, ‘You’re kidding! ‘ And we had to go and do full stunt rehearsals. I had to, so to speak, lie on a mat.
‘Sam Phillips tackled me like a pro, at one point he was so hard his coat stuck to my wig and we were stuck together.’
Sam appeared in The Project alongside co-star Jessica Madsen, who plays Cressida Cowper in the series.
“Most of the time it looked like I was holding her in a headlock. We had to do it six or seven times, maybe more. I was shocked at how unsoft I looked, basically,” he said.
‘Sam Phillips did a full rugby tackle on me, at one point he was so hard his coat stuck to my wig and we were stuck together,’ Nicola previously explained.
The couple will be visiting Australia to attend Metro Comic Con on July 13 and 14 in Melbourne.
The actor told the show that he also had his first experiences of being photographed in public.
“The same thing happened to me last week. I was dressed and looked horrible. I was wearing a huge, horrible T-shirt. I was just walking around,” he explained.
“And they said, ‘Click. It’s all over the Internet now. There we have it.'”
