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By Hayley Maitland
When British Vogue magazine visited Bridget Jones designer Helen Fielding for a glass of white burgundy in 1998, the writer wasn’t quite sure what would happen to the vaguely autobiographical character she’d created. him,” she said, comfortably ensconced in the candlelit living room of her Notting Hill apartment. “I hope to know when it’s time to kill her. Although it is also conceivable that he will finish writing about 60 years – Old Bridget. He may be like Bertie Wooster and die indefinitely.
And, look at this, Bridge, like all the other blondes with questionable feminist principles, is back. (Incredibly, when he commissioned his first e-book to be translated into a screenplay for director Sharon Maguire, Fielding, then a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, “went out and bought a copy of How to Write a Screenplay, very similar to Bridget’s” (thankfully, it turns out he found his feet in the writers’ room some 25 years later. )Mad About the Boy, the fourth installment in the Ms. Jones franchise inspired by Pride
The film’s plot comes from Fielding’s 2013 novel of the same name, which is set 4 years after Bridget Jones’ The Bathrough (the less said, the better). Mark The Bore is now dead, having been “killed by a landmine in Sudan” (. . . ), leaving Bridget as a single mother, widowed, raising two young men in their fifties, which doesn’t seem to require much vodka consumption. (Remember: she is passionately dedicated to communicating with young people. )
If Colin Firth wouldn’t possibly return for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Hugh Grant will, reprising his role as the “alcoholic, workaholic, sex-addicted, commitment-phobic, megalomaniac, emotional jerk” with beautiful hair that is Daniel Cleaver. . . I can only assume that this means that there will be more mini-getaways at Stoke Park in Bridget and Daniel’s future. Even more intriguing, Chiwetel Ejiofor (whose Da’Vine Joy Randolph was surely in the money) and Leo Woodall joined the cast. possibly as Mr. Wallaker, the odd compatibility instructor at Bridget’s children’s school who helps her when she’s stuck in a tree (as one does), and Roxster, in his thirties, a sexual fling out of pity he finds on Twitter. (“I suddenly feel like a screen goddess in the manner of Ambika Mod. “)” Bridget Jones, she’s already a legend” – and who now also feeds a thousand ideas on the subject of the cougar.
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