Bridget’s back. Just as she is.
24 years ago Renée Zellweger slipped into those pants, and the world has been in love with Bridget Jones ever since.
Returning to her Academy Award nominated role, Zellweger is navigating a new life for one Bridget Jones in BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY, where she is alone once again, widowed for four years. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor).
A romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, Michael Morris directs this new story about a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre, and as he joined his cast down under for the Australian premiere, our Peter Gray spoke with him about collaborating with his leading lady, his visual inspiration for bringing her world to life, and what he personally sees as being the quintessential example of the rom com genre.
