Hugh Grant Cried Reading the Script for 4th ‘Bridget Jones’ Movie

Hugh Grant says he wept studying the script for Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy.

Grant, 64, reprises his position as dastardly Daniel Cleaver within the fourth Bridget Jones film, which hits theaters on Valentine’s Day, 2025.

“I liked the script — it made me cry, and I wished to assist with this one,” the actor told Vanity Fair in an interview revealed Wednesday, September 11. “However actually there’s no half for Daniel Cleaver in it in any respect. They wished him in it, and ultimately, they’d executed one thing I wasn’t loopy about.”

Placing on his screenwriter’s hat, Grant “wrote some scenes” that director Michael Morris accepted and weaved into the plot. Then Grant signed on to costar alongside Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emma Thompson and Leo Woodall, Bridget’s rumored new love curiosity.

“There are individuals in my life who’ve at all times stated, ‘Oh, that’s way more like the true Hugh,’” Grant stated of Daniel, who seduces Bridget together with his devilish allure within the first two films. 

He had declined a proposal to look within the third Bridget movie, 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Child, telling Self-importance Honest, “I actually couldn’t match my character in — he simply didn’t belong, so I stepped apart.”

However Grant was proud to take part in Mad In regards to the Boy. “It’s completely the perfect [Bridget Jones book], and I feel it’s very humorous and really, very transferring,” he stated.  “I’m not in loads, I did every week’s work, that’s it. … However whenever you see the movie, you’ll be very moved.”

Followers of the beloved franchise rejoiced when the movie’s poster was unveiled in August. 

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Rom-com darling Bridget Jones is making her return for a fourth movie. The plucky British heroine performed by double Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger has spawned three earlier movies, Bridget Jones Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Motive (2004) and Bridget Jones’s Child (2016). The fourth installment, Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy, was confirmed in […]

“New decade. New diary,” learn the tagline for the nostalgic advert, which featured Zellweger, 55, sporting a pink cardigan together with her character’s iconic crimson diary in her hand.

The actress made her debut as Bridget Jones in 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary. Based mostly on the ebook of the identical title by Helen Fielding, the Pleasure and Prejudice-inspired story follows Bridget as she finds herself in a love triangle between enemies Daniel and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), who in the end wins her coronary heart. In Bridget Jones’s Child, she and Mark are fortunately married with a son. 

Nonetheless, Mad In regards to the Boy relies on the third novel within the Bridget Jones collection, which picks up with Bridget navigating courting life and being a single mom following — spoiler alert — Mark’s surprising demise.

It’s unknown whether or not Mark will meet the identical destiny within the upcoming movie. Firth, 64, was noticed filming with Zellweger over the summer time in images and video obtained by The Daily Mail.

Fielding, 66, opened up concerning the determination to kill off Mark in a 2013 interview on Today, recalling that telling Firth of his character’s demise was “the toughest factor.” She defined: “It was one of many strangest conversations of my life as a result of I needed to ask if he had somebody with him, if he was sitting down, and it was actually as if somebody actually had died. Then we kind of began laughing as a result of they hadn’t.”