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 the final resting place for Bridget’s massive knickers
‘It’s not a bad job, is it?’ Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renée Zellweger and Leo Woodall. Photograph: Emily Sotot/Universal Pictures
His reaction after being told over the phone? “‘You’ve murdered the wrong one; it should have been Mrs Grant,’” grins Fielding. Grant plays Firth’s love rival, the publishing scoundrel Daniel Cleaver. “They call each other Mrs Firth and Mrs Grant.”, who has played Bridget for nearly 25 years, feel? “Rotten!” she says, when we meet a few days after Fielding’s call. “I was a crazy person mourning this fictional character. I was weeping.
It is the chapter in Bridget’s life that is closest to Fielding’s own, says Zellweger. Kevin Curran, Fielding’s ex-partner and father of her two children, died of cancer in 2016, the same year that her frienddied. Fielding started writing the screenplay during the pandemic, when loss was even more palpable.
One thing that everyone agrees on is that there is no male equivalent of Bridget, someone who expresses men’s anxieties and aspirations. James Bond, I suggest. “But do guys see themselves as Bond after leaving the cinema?” asks Ejiofor.
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