“Bridget Jones – Mad about the boy”, interview with director Michael Morris and actors Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall

February 26, 2025

Renée Zellweger: “Bridget is inspirational because no matter how difficult it is, how imperfect she feels and how far the gap between her and her perception of herself, she still triumphs and never gives up”

“Bridget Jones - Mad about the boy”, interview with director Michael Morris and actors Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall Chiara Nicoletti

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From February 27th, 2025, the Helen Fielding books’eroine Bridget Jones will come back to cinemas with Universal Pictures for a final chapter: Bridget Jones – Mad about the boy.

Two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre. 

Renée Zellweger with director Michael Morris and the new entries in the saga, Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor and White Lotus’s Leo Woodall arrived in Rome earlier this February to introduce the film to the italian audience.

When asked about the secret of Bridget Jones’success, Renée Zellweger answered: “Bridget is inspirational because no matter how difficult it is, how imperfect she feels and how far the gap between her and her perception of herself, she still triumphs and never gives up”.

Plot

Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar® winner Colin Firth) 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 (Hugh Grant).
 
Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner 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 (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 (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor).

Written by: Chiara Nicoletti

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