After almost a decade…Bridget Jones is back on our TV screens! Renée Zellweger makes her return for the final installment in Michael Morris' 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.' She and newcomers Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and dish on their new characters, how Zellweger approached playing Bridget this time around and more.
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00:00Her choices don't just affect her anymore.
00:02So is she a little more measured?
00:04Probably.
00:05Does she have time to worry so much about, you know,
00:07herself or picking on herself?
00:09Not as much, but similar, you know,
00:12familiarly, she is concerned about if she's measuring up.
00:15And we all relate to that.
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00:19Is everything all right, Mrs. Darcy?
00:21Oh, my God.
00:23Hiya.
00:24I climbed a magical man tree.
00:25Hello.
00:26Um...
00:28After almost a decade,
00:30Bridget Jones is back on our TV screens.
00:32Renee Zellweger makes her return for the final installment
00:35in Michael Morris' Bridget Jones,
00:37Mad About the Boy.
00:38Others who are set to return and reprise their roles
00:40are Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson,
00:42along with some new faces joining the franchise.
00:45The new film follows Bridget wrestling with grief
00:47four years after Mark Darcy was killed
00:50while on a humanitarian trip in Sudan.
00:52However, Bridget pledges to live life to the fullest
00:54once more, after a dashing 29-year-old
00:57named Rockster, played by Woodall,
00:59comes along and gives her the summer a pure distraction.
01:02Rockster's maybe a lot more front-footed and honest
01:06about how he feels from the start
01:09and is very flirtatious with her
01:12and allows his smile for her to come through.
01:17And he's just sort of... He's a go-getter.
01:21And it's not a Bridget Jones story
01:23without another love interest in the mix,
01:25because her chemistry with science teacher,
01:26Mr. Wallacher, played by Ejiofor,
01:29is only getting more electric.
01:31It's even though he finds Bridget, like,
01:33I think, initially very chaotic
01:35and the way that she sort of...
01:37The sort of world around her is a bit destabilizing.
01:41I think he does come to understand,
01:43you know, quite quickly, just the inherent values
01:46of those things. And I also think that she sees
01:49in him that the sensitivity and the care that he takes,
01:54you know, as an educator and how seriously
01:56he takes that responsibility.
01:58While we all know Bridget to be full of humor
02:00and quirkiness, this new film revolves a lot
02:03around the grief of losing her husband.
02:05And you're never the same after you experience loss.
02:08And how does that manifest?
02:10You know, your perspective changes,
02:12your values change, how you communicate
02:14and what you want in your life
02:15inevitably changes as well.
02:18And now we're talking about, you know, a mother.
02:21So, her choices don't just affect her anymore.
02:24Though, is she a little more measured? Probably.
02:27Um, does she have time to worry so much about,
02:29you know, herself or picking on herself?
02:32Not as much, but similar. You know, familiarly,
02:35she is concerned about if she's measuring up.
02:39And we all relate to that, you know?
02:41Zellweger also talks about missing pal Colin Firth
02:44on set of the final installment.
02:46It was just so sad thinking this character
02:49that I love and I love Mark and Bridget was no more.
02:54But also, you know, just as my friend,
02:56I've shared this experience with him for 25 years
03:00and that that was coming to an end.
03:02That was, um, yeah, that really, uh, snuck up on me
03:07in a really heavy way.
03:09Bridget Jones' Mad About the Boy
03:11is streaming exclusively on Peacock, February 13th.
03:15This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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