You’ve probably seen a hundred trailers for BJB, so you know the premise: Bridget is pregnant and doesn’t know if Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) or new character Jack (Patrick Dempesy) is the father.
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After a hiatus of six years from film acting, Renee Zellweger made her comeback this year with thriller film “The Whole Truth”.
Bridget favourite Sally Phillips may be wearing a foot brace but she’s still in good spirits.
The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw wrote that Bridget Jones’s Baby was “a pretty broad comedy” but praised the film for including an update on the “traditional rom-com rush to the airport”.
Zellweger was speaking to the BBC ahead of the release of her latest film, Bridget Jones’s Baby, which is due in United Kingdom cinemas on 16 September.
Helen Fielding’s creation was extremely popular in the late nineties, with our main character and many of her societal pseudonyms becoming adopted by her audience.
Everyone’s favourite British singleton, Bridget Jones, is back with Bridget Jones’s Baby.
They bookmark the heroine’s trials and vacillations with nostalgic flashbacks to earlier films, reminding us of Bridget’s infuriating obsessions and her fitful romantic dalliances with paramours Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. She makes it okay to be imperfect.
She said: “It’s obviously bonkers, the scrutiny that Renee has had to go through has been completely insane”.
Maguire said that despite the long wait for the trilogy to be completed, there was no question of getting another actress to play the lead.
Shortly afterwards, another then commented: “I feel so sorry that Renee Zellweger felt enough pressure to seek plastic surgery in order to satisfy perceived youthfulness #gonatural”.
It was sentiment echoed by producer Eric Fellner. She’s also a brilliant actress; we’ve seen that through her dramatic work.
“It was scary coming back”, Mr Zellweger said. “It’s a universal fear, and one that’s still a prominent theme in the character’s journey”.
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Single life is far harder in an age of social media than when Bridget Jones was first created in the mid-1990s, the book’s author has said.
