It ‘never felt necessary’ to revisit Bridget Jones’s weight in new film, says director

The manager of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has said that her value ‘never felt similar thing we needed to revisit’ successful the caller film.

Michael Morris helms the 4th Bridget movie, which comes nearly 25 years aft the first, 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, and aft 2 sequels which followed successful 2004 and 2016 respectively.

The beloved heroine, created by writer Helen Fielding, was archetypal introduced to audiences arsenic a relatable singleton successful her 30s who swigged vino from the bottle, ate pints of crystal pick and preferred big, comfy knickers.

She was besides idiosyncratic who tracked her calories and weighed herself for each diary introduction she made and was taxable to a barrage of comments astir her assemblage size from others – particularly successful the archetypal 2 films.

Oscar-winning histrion Renée Zellweger enactment connected and mislaid value doubly to play the portion successful the archetypal 2 films, gaining 20 pounds.

However, Bridget’s value and calorie intake doesn’t origin into Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, contempt it featuring successful Fielding’s 2013 caller of the aforesaid name.

Morris says determination are present different priorities for her to beryllium ‘frazzled about’ arsenic a 51-year-old widow and parent of two.

‘It conscionable ne'er felt similar thing that we needed to revisit, to beryllium honest. I mean, I deliberation things person a clip and a place,’ Morris said successful an interrogation with Metro.

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‘I’m cautious due to the fact that I grew up with Bridget, and I actually, weirdly, felt truly connected to Bridget arsenic not a woman, but I’m besides truly alert that that I astir apt would person connected to her otherwise had I been a woman. So it’s hard for maine to talk to that specifically.’

The obsession with Bridget’s assemblage and size is thing which has received backlash, particularly successful retrospect.

‘All I tin accidental is that I consciousness similar the impulse of the filmmakers astatine the clip was not to accidental a pistillate of this size is overweight oregon underweight oregon whatever. It’s to recognise and spot radical who are alert of each these antithetic things that are being asked of them arsenic women,’ Morris, who besides directed Andrea Riseborough to an Oscar information successful 2022’s To Leslie, continued.

‘And present I conscionable felt similar I don’t deliberation it needs to beryllium portion of the speech with her. She’s got truthful galore different things she’s frazzled about. She’s not paying attraction to definite things – that the kids are precocious for school, [that] she’s ever coming [there] successful her pyjamas.

‘We’re conveying a benignant of chaos successful her beingness successful a mode that didn’t request to beryllium tracked similar calories.’

In Mad About the Boy, Bridget is navigating beingness and parenthood without hubby Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) aft his death, and being encouraged backmost onto the dating country by friends, colleagues and former occurrence Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).

Along the mode she encounters 29-year-old parkland idiosyncratic Roxster (Leo Woodall), who meets Bridget aft rescuing her from a tree, and her son’s stern teacher Mr Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

Morris antecedently described the upcoming movie arsenic having ‘a benignant of Bridget that possibly we haven’t seen before’ astatine the trailer motorboat event.

‘I emotion the Bridget films, obviously, but this is simply a caller time. We’re each a spot older. We’ve lived a bit, and that’s what this movie represents.’

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy releases successful UK cinemas connected February 13.

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