'I really hate vanity on screen:' Nicola Coughlan on her latest role, friendship and bipolar disorder

Rachael Davis hears Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan talk about Big Mood, a dark comedy about friendship, entering your 30s, and bipolar disorder

Pictured: Nicola Coughlan who plays Maggie in Big Mood.Picture: Matt Crockett / Channel 4

Maggie and Eddie have been best friends for a decade, staying together through all the challenges of their twenties. Career woes, boy trouble, questionable life choices and wild fashion moments — you name it, they’ve got through it side by side, in each other’s pockets.

But now their thirties are looming, and life’s getting more serious. With their careers — Eddie’s as a Dalston pub owner, Maggie’s as a playwright — both reaching rocky territory and Maggie’s bipolar disorder making an unwelcome return, they’re being forced to take a long, hard look at their codependent friendship and whether it really serves them.