RENEE ZELLWEGER looks much skinnier in Bridget Jones's Baby than in the previous films and the star explains what is going on in a new interview with Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey.
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| Zellweger looks a lot more like her real self in the new film |
We all love Bridget Jones exactly as she is.
So why is she suddenly looking Hollywood thin in the latest pictures from the new film?
Renée Zellweger famously had to pile on the pounds to play the beloved heroine in the previous two films.
Many people have been wondering if she put her foot down and only agreed to return to the role if Bridget was thinner this time.
The film's cast and crew have revealed all in a new interview.
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| The tub of ice cream is still there but she doesn't seem to be showing the effects this time... |
Bridget, it seems, is now a single 43-year-old who has finally achieved her goal of ditching the giant support pants.
"This is part of the new challenge, discovering where Bridget is now in her new life,” Zellweger says in Entertainment Weekly.
"I love all these characters. I love her world and her family and her friends.”
"I like that she tells stories about what it’s like to be a woman."
Yes, that all sounds very lovely, but WHY is Bridget suddenly skinny?
The film's director Sharon Maguire, insists that the new look Bridget is simply reflecting a different stage in the character's life.
“We all really loved the notion that Bridget, 15 years on, had finally reached her ideal weight," Maguire says.
"She is somewhere between a UK size 10 or 12, but still hadn’t solved any of her issues about love and loneliness.”
Unfortunately, nothing else is under control as Bridget discovers that she is pregnant and can't be sure who the father is...
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Colin Firth is back as Mark Darcy, even though his character actually died in the last book by Helen Fielding, Mad About The Boy, where Bridget is 51.
Apparently the new film takes inspiration from Fielding's newpaper columns about the characters, not the novels.
Hugh Grant, however, doesn't return as Daniel Cleaver and is replaced in the eternal love triangle by Gray's Anatomy hunk Patrick Dempsey.
"He’s a very different kind of rival. He's not somebody I've known since we were kids," Firth says.
"He's an outsider and he threatens Mark Darcy in a very, very different way than Daniel did."
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| Bridget has also abandoned the trusty diary for a laptop |
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| We'll miss Hugh Grant as sleazy Daniel Cleaver |
Dempsey says his character Jack "is astonished" by Bridget.
That astonishment leads to complications when the perenially scatty Bridget makes the ultimate cock-up (literally) and discovers that she is pregnant, but can't be sure which of the two men is responsible.
"Who does she end up with? Whose baby is it? You can resolve one and make the other a question," says Firth.
"Those are things which might not be revealed until very later on.
"I rather like it. It's not often you have something where you have the possibility of keeping a surprise."
Poor old Bridget, once more, reflects the dilemmas of modern men and women.
“I think that one of the reasons the first film worked was not just because of the comedy but because people identified with Bridget’s fear of loneliness," Maguire adds.
“It’s a universal fear. It’s still a prominent theme in the character’s journey even in the third film, and an integral point of access for the audience to empathise with Bridget.”
Producer Debra Hayward agrees.
“She is kind of every woman, Bridget. You do want to look at her and see yourself reflected back in her in some way," she says.
“What I love about the stories, it’s quite bold to tell a story about a slightly older woman.
"I just love that it’s kind of got a sort of maturity about it, as a love story, as a romantic comedy.”
Bridget Jones's Baby is out in cinemas on September 16, 2016
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