Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
- 2025 film
A fourth film in the hit comedy series following unlucky-in-love journalist Bridget Jones, now widowed with two young children. Stars Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones and more.
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Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones
Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss - and why Bridget Jones is the female James Bond.
Hollie Richardson, The Guardian, 31st January 2025Is Bridget Jones' Darcy based on Keir Starmer?
Author Helen Fielding has discussed bringing her heroine to a Gen Z audience, and whether Bridget Jones' Darcy was based on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Charlotte Gallagher, BBC, 31st January 2025Bridget Jones may be 'problematic' but she's just as relatable in 2025
The perma-dieting, toxic man-loving heroine of Helen Fielding's books is easily written off as a product of her time.
Claudia Cockerell, Evening Standard, 31st January 2025Renée Zellweger: 'Fingers crossed' this is not the end of Bridget Jones
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy has been billed as the fourth and final film in the series - but its star Renée Zellweger says she has her "fingers crossed" that is not the case.
Charlotte Gallagher, BBC, 29th January 2025Bridget Jones was the perfect scrappy heroine - how can Gen Z possibly relate?
Renée Zellweger is back as the big pants-wearing, Silk Cut-inhaling, toy-boy loving Nineties star we all fell in love with - but with Gen Z choosing wellbeing over wine o'clock, how will she go down this time round?
Emily Sheffield, The Independent, 27th January 2025Does Bridget Jones 4 serve any purpose?
Are you brave enough to peer down the bottomless pit of cash-grab sequels popping out of Hollywood? Then kick aside the detritus of Joker 2 and Inside Out 2 and make way for Mad About The Boy, also known as Bridget Jones 4.
Urooba Rasool, The Express Tribune, 11th October 2024New Bridget Jones film very sad, says Hugh Grant
Bridget Jones fans have long adored the films for their cringe-worthy, hilarious and heartwarming scenes. But Hugh Grant has warned that the fourth instalment in the franchise - due out on Valentine's Day next year - will have a very different tone.
Noor Nanji, BBC, 5th October 2024Hugh Grant had one condition for starring in new Bridget Jones movie
Hugh Grant has revealed he only agreed to be in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy after rewriting his part.
The actor, 64, is set to reprise his role as the titular character's womanising ex-boyfriend Daniel Cleaver in the fourth installment of the rom-com franchise based on the books by Helen Fielding, but says he "wasn't crazy" about what script writers originally had planned for him.
Tina Campbell, Evening Standard, 13th September 2024Helen Fielding: "I'm very protective of Bridget Jones"
HHer creation became the voice of a generation. The author talks about blue soup, Keir Starmer and calorie counting.
Hadley Freeman, The Sunday Times, 18th August 2024Filming of Bridget Jones 4 in chaos after bats halt production in the Lake District
I'm told that when star Renee Zellweger and the team headed to film in Keswick, in the Lake District, there was a right to-do from local bat experts about the impact the production would have on the mammals' population.
Ellie Henman, The Sun, 5th August 2024