Renee Zellweger stated her character Bridget Jones “seems like an previous good friend” as she and the solid of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy attended the movie’s world premiere in London on Wednesday (Jan 29).
Over twenty years after Bridget Jones’s Diary got here out, the fourth film within the collection finds Bridget now a single mom of two after the loss of life of her husband Mark Darcy.
Bridget’s good friend and former lover Daniel Cleaver, performed by Hugh Grant, additionally makes an look within the romantic comedy.
As Bridget juggles a profession, parenting, seeing associates and beginning to date once more, Zellweger says it’s the character’s vulnerability that connects with audiences.
“I believe lots of people relate to the challenges that she finds her method by way of, her vulnerability,” Zellweger stated on the purple carpet.
She praised author Helen Fielding for creating a personality that many individuals discover endearing, in addition to “moments that appear universally and cross-generationally relatable.”
Bridget Jones and her romantic adventures first made their mark on popular culture in Fielding’s London-set 1996 hit novel Bridget Jones’s Diary.
