‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ Ending Explained By Director From “Symbolic Connection” Of The Owl To Which Man Bridget Ends Up With

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SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Though Renee Zellweger’s Bridget Jones has yet another major choice to navigate when it comes to love in the fourth film of the franchise, her late husband remains a constant presence in her mind.

Directed by Michael Morris, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — streaming on Peacock as of Valentine’s Day — takes viewers through all kinds of emotions, and especially grief, as Bridget’s husband Mark Darcy’s (Colin Firth) death in Sudan took place in between the third and fourth films.

A touching moment at the end of the film between Bridget, her children, and the man she ultimately ends up with involving the flight of a barn owl is ultimately up to interpretation according to Morris, but the attachment to the late Mark is most certainly one way of looking at it. “I want that owl to function just the way anybody wants.

You take what you want out of that scene. There seems to be a symbolic connection between the owl and their experience of the owl and Mark, but what I also love about how Chiwetel played that beat at the end, they’re all having their moment individually watching that owl fly away when it’s time and even Chiwetel’s  character, even Mr.