00:00Her choices don't just affect her anymore.
00:02So is she a little more measured?
00:04Probably.
00:05Does she have time to worry so much about, you know,
00:08herself or picking on herself?
00:10Not as much.
00:11But similar, you know, familiarly,
00:13she is concerned about if she's measuring up.
00:16And we all relate to that.
00:20Everything all right, Mrs. Darcy?
00:22Oh, my God.
00:23Hiya.
00:24I've climbed a magical man tree.
00:26Hello.
00:27Uh.
00:28After almost a decade,
00:30Bridget Jones is back on our TV screens.
00:32Renee Zellweger makes her return for the final installment
00:35in Michael Morris' Bridget Jones' Mad About the Boy.
00:38Others who are set to return and reprise their roles
00:40are Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson,
00:43along with some new faces joining the franchise.
00:45The new film follows Bridget wrestling with grief
00:47four years after Mark Darcy was killed
00:50while on a humanitarian trip in Sudan.
00:52However, Bridget pledges to live life to the fullest once more
00:55after a dashing 29-year-old named Rockstar,
00:57played by Woodall,
00:59comes along and gives her the summer of pure distraction.
01:02Rockstar's book may be a lot more front-footed
01:06and honest about how he feels from the start
01:09and is very flirtatious with her
01:12and allows his smile for her to come through
01:18and he's just sort of, he's a go-getter.
01:21And it's not a Bridget Jones story
01:23without another love interest in the mix
01:25because her chemistry with science teacher Mr. Wallacher,
01:28played by Ejiofor, is only getting more electric.
01:32It's even though he finds Bridget, like,
01:34I think initially very chaotic
01:36and the way that she sort of,
01:38the sort of world around her is a bit destabilizing.
01:41I think he does come to understand, you know,
01:44quite quickly just the inherent values of those things.
01:47And I also think that she sees in him
01:50that the sensitivity and the care that he takes,
01:54you know, as an educator
01:56and how seriously he takes that responsibility.
01:58While we all know Bridget to be full of humor and quirkiness,
02:02this new film revolves a lot around the grief
02:04of losing her husband.
02:05And you're never the same after you experience loss.
02:08And how does that manifest?
02:11You know, your perspective changes, your values change,
02:13how you communicate and what you want in your life
02:16inevitably changes as well.
02:18And now we're talking about, you know, a mother.
02:21So her choices don't just affect her anymore.
02:24Though is she a little more measured?
02:26Probably.
02:27Um, does she have time to worry so much about,
02:30you know, herself or picking on herself?
02:32Not as much, but similar, you know,
02:35familiarly she is concerned about
02:37if she's measuring up and we all relate to that, you know?
02:41Zellweger also talks about missing pal Colin Firth
02:44on set of the final installment.
02:46It was just so sad thinking this character that I love
02:51and I love Mark and Bridget was no more.
02:54But also, you know, just as my friend,
02:57I've shared this experience with him for 25 years
03:00and that that was coming to an end.
03:03That was, um, yeah, that really, uh,
03:06snuck up on me in a, in a really heavy way.
03:10Bridget Jones' Mad About The Boy
03:12is streaming exclusively on Peacock, February 13th.
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