Renee Zellweger has revealed that the script for the new Bridget Jones movie had no definite ending.
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The pity party’s over soon enough though, as she skips the song and boogies instead to “Jump Around”.
Bridget Jones is back. with a bump. She’s a producer on the television program “Hard News”, still has her great group of friends, even though they’re now all saddled with kids, and has achieved her ideal weight. Though it opens, like the original, with Bridget alone and listening to “All By Myself”, the new film finds her mostly at peace with being single in her forties.
In a span of one week she has a fling with a billionaire Internet match-maker played by Patrick Dempsey and a reunion fling with Mr. Darcy, played by the like-able Colin Firth. However, it does leave an opening for another sequel should this be successful at the box office (and if Hugh Grant is willing to reprise his role as Daniel Cleaver).
It nearly seemed as if we would never walk into the world of Bridget Jones ever again, if only because of how truly underwhelming the sequel, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”, was. Thompson also shows up in the film and gets some of the biggest laughs as the astute OB-GYN who quickly catches on to Bridget’s dilemma.
Though the premise of “Bridget Jones’s Baby” makes it seem as if it’s all about the guy again, that isn’t the case.
Still, the change of pace seems to have re-energized her. She grew a human with that body. Zellweger deservedly nabbed an Oscar nomination as Best Actress; award talk evaporated, however, for the 2004 sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
This is Bridget’s story, and as it unfolds her interactions with other women are just as important.
Renee Zellweger explains what led to her 2010 Hollywood hiatus. It was also 15 years ago since the world was mesmerized with Jones’ “Diary“.
That’s likely due to the fact that Sharon Maguire, who directed the practically flawless “Bridget Jones’s Diary“, is back (Beeban Kidron directed the second), working from a script from author Helen Fielding, Emma Thompson (very amusing as an unamused doctor) and Dan Mazer.
It all gets very complicated and a little silly before things gets resolved, leaving the possibility of yet another film chapter.
Yet it feels current because they’ve allowed the character to grow.
Meanwhile, the 47-year-old actress previously insisted she “learned a lot” during her break. Bridget is good at her job, less diet conscious, and ready to take on the challenges of turning 43.
Film facts: Stars Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Sarah Solemani.
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Bridget Jones’s Baby is just as wicked and silly as you’d hope, only on a more grown-up level, as befits the subject matter.
