‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Trailer: Renée Zellweger Gets New Suitors in Sexy Fourth Installment
Paging all singletons and smug-marrieds!
Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is back once again — and now, in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” she’s a widow. Yes, for those who don’t keep up with the novels by Helen Fielding, Mr. Darcy is now dead. It’s been four years, so single mum Bridget is ready for some sex. Ding dong!
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Joining the cast of suitors for the fourth go-round are Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall (“One Day”), in addition to a returning Hugh Grant (who didn’t appear in the third installment, 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby”). There’s also at least a cameo appearance by Mark Darcy himself (Colin Firth).
Per a press release: “Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. 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 (Grant). Pressured by her Urban Family — Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson) — 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 (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).”
“Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” is written by Helen Fielding, with contributions by Abi Morgan and Dan Mazer. Directed by Michael Morris, it’s produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Jo Wallett.
“Bridget Jones’s Diary,” of course, was an Oscar-nominated smash when it premiered in 2001. The less-beloved sequel, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” also starring Zellweger, Grant, and Firth, hit in 2004. For “Baby,” Patrick Dempsey also appeared as a suitor before Bridget once again finally made it work with her Mr. Darcy.
“Mad About the Boy” will be released in theaters internationally by Universal Pictures and will stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S. February 13, 2025. Watch the trailer below.
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