Bridget Jones director shares truth about working with Renée Zellweger on emotional end to franchise

The stars of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Leo Woodall, took to the pinkish carpet for the movie’s London premiere earlier manager Michael Morris took to the signifier to invited the 4th instalment

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy manager Michael Morris has revealed what it's truly similar down the scenes moving with Renée Zellweger.

Renée, 55, has played the frazzled English TV shaper for implicit 24 years, but fans of the movies volition spot a precise antithetic Bridget this clip astir arsenic she navigates beingness arsenic a azygous parent who is delving into the choppy waters of online dating successful this modern age.

Speaking to The Mirror astatine the film's premiere successful London's Leicester Square connected Wednesday evening, manager Michael gave a gushing code astir Renée earlier the movie's debut. Having ever been a immense instrumentality of the iconic quality that is Bridget, Michael said that each his dreams came existent erstwhile helium was fixed the erstwhile successful a beingness accidental to nonstop the 4th instalment - and moving with Renée was an adjacent bigger vocation milestone.

"Renee is 1 of these radical who is perfectly herself," helium said. "She’s wildly affable and bursts done immoderate preconception you whitethorn person astir what a Hollywood prima is like. This pistillate has been successful each my favourite films. For arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember, quality aft quality - from comedies and dramas to musicals, there’s thing that she doesn’t do. But erstwhile you’re talking to her, she’s wholly present. I deliberation that’s wherefore she’s truthful fantastic successful this role."

Michael said that helium wasn't definite if helium could ever ideate different Bridget Jones movie, but that helium couldn't spot anyone other but Renee playing the iconic role.

Renee herself emphasised the value of her gathering with manager Morris successful her determination to instrumentality to the role. Speaking to the assemblage astatine the film's premiere, she said: "When we met, Michael was truthful honest. He was striving for however to champion seizure these moments of a beingness successful a mode that radical person experienced them: How is this relatable? How tin we archer the truth?"

The histrion besides said that she is "in denial" and "it hasn't sunk successful yet" that the franchise whitethorn beryllium coming to a close. "Let maine unrecorded successful denial for a small longer", she quipped.

The 4th instalment of the franchise sees Bridget surviving arsenic a widow, becoming a azygous parent and tackling modern dating aft her husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) passes distant successful tragic circumstances. The communicative is partially inspired by Fielding's ain nonaccomplishment aft her husband, Kevin Curran, died successful 2016.

American histrion Renee told fans that the movie is simply a "beautiful communicative and truly the astir idiosyncratic for Helen. She is sharing astir her ain experiences astir loss, grief and uncovering caller happiness, it's a beauteous peculiar one". The histrion added that she has ever felt "really, truly fortunate to get the part" and "was conscionable trying not to get fired".

The 4th movie successful the Bridget Jones franchise besides brings backmost Hugh Grant arsenic Daniel Cleaver. The formed besides includes Sarah Solemani, James Callis, Sally Phillips, and Shirley Henderson arsenic Bridget’s friends, on with Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones arsenic her begetter and mother. Celia Imrie, Neil Pearson and Joanna Scanlan besides reprise their roles. The caller additions to the formed are Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Isla Fisher

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is released successful UK cinemas connected Valentine's Day.

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