“ Crossed fingers ” This is not the end of Bridget Jones

This article contains spoilers on Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy was presented as the fourth and last film in the series – but her star Renée Zellweger says that she has her “crossed fingers” which is not the case.

Zellweger has played our favorite unhappy heroine for over 20 years and also seems attached to her, calling the character an “old friend”.

Speaking during the first of the film in Leicester Square of London Wednesday evening, the actress says that she is “in denial” and “he has not yet sank” that the franchise may end.

“Let me live in denial a little longer,” she laughs.

However, although it is not planned to resume the story of Bridget Jones, the author Helen Fielding is not completely excluded the perspective.

The new film sees Bridget Living like a widow, becoming a single mother and attacking modern meetings.

The story is partially inspired by the loss of field. Her husband, Kevin Curran, died in 2016.

Zellweger says that the film is a “beautiful story and really personal for Helen. She shares her own experiences on loss, sorrow and the search for new happiness, it’s quite special”.

She adds that she always felt “really, really lucky to get the play” and “just tried not to be fired”.

It is obvious that there is also a true love between the cast while Zellweger and his father on the screen, Jim Broadbent, embraces on the pink carpet.

Hugh Grant was also at first. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy sees the return of Grant’s anti-herois roguish, Daniel Cleaver.

He was declared dead at the start of the last film, Bridget Jones’ baby – to be found alive just before the final credits.

We also see a slightly softer side of this notation notation and CAD in the new film.

But the interests of Bridget in the film are new characters.

One day, Leo Woodall plays his Tinder match who, at 29, is (cough) a little less than Bridget, 51 years old.

The BAFTA winner, Chiwetel Ejiofor, plays a Bridget buttoned teacher Dating on school and a class trip soaked in rain.

Woodall says that although he felt “a lot of pressure” in the film, he knew that it was going to be “relatively easy” as soon as he met Zellweger because she was “joyful and generous and kind and good and obviously a wonderful actor”.

According to he himself had clumsy moments of Bridget Jones, Woodhall says “he falls a lot”.

Ejiofor, who is mainly known for his more grumpy roles in films like 12 years, an American slave and gangster says that the film is a “different speed” for its usual projects.

But adds that it was pleasant to film: “Even the whole is so warm, everyone is so excited to tell the story”.

To align the success of Bridget Jones lies in his “emotional honesty”.

“When I wrote Bridget for the first time, it was an anonymous chronicle in The Independent that I thought I was stopped after six weeks to be too silly,” she said.

“It freed me to be honest in a way that I could never have been otherwise and I think that is what people have linked.

“I thought I was the only person who felt like that and it turns out that many people, there is a huge gap between the way you feel supposed to be and how you really are.”

Bridget was a character created in the 1990s and Fielding says she is “really touched” that Gen Z also kissed her.

“When I make half a half, the audiences are the Gen Z. They have been the first generation that have experienced a global crisis for centuries. They are very similar to Bridget in their emotional fragility, their ability to share and cry On Tiktok.

“And they have their same little rituals, Bridget has ice cream and vodka and they have sleep routines and things like that.

“I think they are a really interesting and charming generation. I can’t wait to start writing more novels.”

Rumor has long said that the character of the human rights book Mark Darcy – played by Colin Firth in the previous films of Bridget Jones – was based on the lawyer who has become Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

So, is there truth about this?

“All I would say about this is that if you watch Colin ‘first photos in the film and Keir Starmer’s photos in a wig, they are terribly similar,” said Fielding with a smile.

We may never know it with certainty, but could there be another book and film by Bridget Jones?

“Never say,” adds Fielding.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy was released in British cinemas on Valentine’s Day.