Ever since part one of Bridgerton season three landed on Netflix on 16 May, viewers have been eating up every last detail – and are thanking their lucky stars for one on-screen blunder.

Despite having to wait until June 13 to feast on the final four episodes, the reviews have been glowing and people have been swooning.

The latest season, which focuses on the friends-to-lovers pipeline of Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), has treated us all to some very steamy scenes.

The duo, who have heaps of chemistry as members of the Ton, get on just as well when the cameras stop rolling.

Coughlan opened up in a recent interview with Radio Times about why the sex scenes were some of her ‘favourite’ to film.

She said: “Hundreds of millions of people watch the show – not five. That’s really scary. But it was one of the things I enjoyed most.

“Luke and I had a real hand in what we did and how it came across. We had agency and we could let it flow.

“Thankfully, we had that physical comfort with one another – so it ended up being a really beautiful thing.

“Luke is a dream to work with. We really had each other’s back. Having now watched those scenes, I’m so proud of them.”

The third season of Bridgerton revolves around Penelope and Colin. (Netflix)

And while we have the screenwriters to thank for a lot of the sex scenes, it turns out one of them was a lot more spontaneous than you might think.

One of the stand-out scenes is obviously that carriage scene, which sees the two get rather close, whilst a (surprisingly fitting) orchestral version of a Pitbull’s Give Me Everything plays in the background.

It turns out, a cameraperson couldn’t fit in the carriage, so it was just the two of them.

Coughlan told Netflix’s Tudum: “We knew what we were doing and the general choreography of it. But it started to feel really long.

“So we just kind of kept going. And I was like, ‘This is going on for ages.’”

Eventually, they stopped. Coughlan then shared that the director, Andrew Ahn, appeared at the carriage-window, sharing that the crew had been shouting at them to ‘cut’… ‘for ages’.

The carriage scene is truly steamy – and more spontaneous than you might think. (Netflix)

They got so carried away they couldn’t hear the direction – and the result is a truly legendary scene.

Now, fans are taking to social media to express their gratitude for this mix up.

One person wrote: “The carriage scene is a million times better when you know that luke and nicola were told to stop but ‘couldn’t hear’ when they were being told so they just kept going.”

Another said: “I was shy during this scene ooooo. This might be the hottest sex scene in the all the seasons. I felt like damn voyeur.”

A third said: “I honestly felt like I was intruding.”

Bridgerton Series 3 Part 1 is now streaming on Netflix, and Part 2 lands on 13 June.