‘Bridget Jones’ Cast on Chemistry Reads, the Sexy Swimming Pool Scene and Chiwetel Ejiofor ‘Finally’ Getting to Show Off His Body
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events SPOILER ALERT: This Q&A contains spoilers about “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” streaming now on Peacock.
When Renée Zellweger was shooting the movie adaptation of Helen Fielding’s bestselling novel “Bridget Jones’s Diary” in 2000, she certainly wasn’t thinking she’d still be playing the titular role 25 years later. “I was just trying not to get fired off the first one,” Zellweger tells me with a laugh.
The 2000 original was followed by two more films — 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” and 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby” — and now, “Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boy.” This time around, Bridget is a single mom raising her two kids after the death of her husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
Feeling frazzled and unfulfilled, she returns to her job as a talk show producer while navigating single life — until she falls for a much younger man, played by Leo Woodall.
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