The columns, written by Helen Fielding, quickly gained popularity thanks to the author’s creation of a flawed, funny, oftentimes insecure but independent woman. Now a fully-fledged producer who quite literally has the ear of her anchor (a very good Sarah Solemani), Bridget believes she has her professional life sorted.
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Arriving 15 years after “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and a dozen since its sequel, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” is a not-so-special delivery. The second installment was released 12 years ago; the third and recent installment was just released to the theatres this month.
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” might just be the best romantic comedy since the original “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and it all comes from Renée Zellwegger’s wonderful charm as Bridget. (A character based on Pride & Prejudice’s Lizzy Bennet can’t not end up with the guy named Darcy.) Still, there’s something so comforting about returning to Jones’ routine of lovably failed self-improvement.
As for Firth, he said he was “surprised how happy I was to return to playing Mark Darcy again”. Clearly, some things never get old. The test would reveal the identity of her unborn baby’s father, but she won’t have it, in part because there wouldn’t be a movie if she did. She makes us wet with her dry humor. “There’s such a sweetness to who she is, such as purity to who she is as a person, that I wasn’t really thinking ‘Tart'”. “Tenacious and determined, she will not be defeated”. When she spills the beans about her pregnancy, Jack brings too many gifts. Women everywhere identified with her attempts to control her weight, cut down on her wine-drinking, and find true love.
Now she’s back, could a fourth film be on the horizon?
“It’s a universal fear, and one that’s still a prominent theme in the character’s journey”.
It’s been a dozen years since we’ve seen Bridget, in a 2004 “Edge of Reason” sequel that was mediocre to the point that we wondered if we’d ever see the Brit single girl again. “The universal undercurrent is that everyone is afraid of being lonely”.
But all giggles aside, a more realistic scenario would have involved Bridget actively making the choice to get pregnant, then spending week after week at a fertility center, undergoing round after round of IVF, hoping for a positive result. We’ve neatly laid it all out for you below. ‘From what I’ve seen with my sister and my best friends, you know, all of them who’ve had the little babies. Another birthday gone, and, at 43, what has come of Bridget’s life? You’ll find out what happened to him.
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The actress reprises her role as the hapless, unlucky-in-love Bridget for the third film in the franchise, reuniting onscreen with Colin, who plays Mark Darcy, and appearing alongside series newcomer Patrick, who portrays the British actor’s new love rival, Jack Qwant.
