What to Watch the Week of February 9: The New Bridget Jones Movie Is Not What You're Expecting
glamour.comBridget Jones movie is the reason to subscribe. , appropriately titled Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, is the final film in the rom-com franchise, and you needn't have seen the other three to have an appreciation for this one (though it does help).The movie is by Helen Fielding, which came out more than a decade ago.
Now, it's getting the final film treatment with all the main players returning to send Bridget off in style.Two-time Oscar winner (obviously) as Bridget Jones, who is now widowed from Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) after he was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. (Even so, Firth will appear in the new movie.) Now, Bridget is a single mom to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel.
is hilariously back as her former lover and forever friend, Daniel Cleaver, in addition to other beloved actors like Emma Thompson (as gynecologist Dr.
Rawlings), Jim Broadbent (Bridget's dad), Gemma Jones (Bridget's mom), and more.Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.Meanwhile, White Lotus and One Day heartthrob joins the cast for the final Bridget Jones movie as a potential love interest for our heroine as well as Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), who plays Billy's science teacher.Given the high-profile cast and beloved story, director Michael Morris (13 Reasons Why, Shameless, Halt and Catch Fire) understandably felt the pressure to deliver."The moment you go, ‘Wait a second, is this really the Bridget Jones franchise that you grew up watching?
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