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Getting back into character after so much time off wasn't an issue for Coughlan because \"you feel immediately different\" putting on those clothes on set, she said.

Coughlan also picked up a new skill: calligraphy.

\"I had to learn calligraphy, I had to learn how to write with a quill because it needed to look convincingly like I was writing at certain points,\" she said. \"But mostly there is a hand double.\"

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