FANS of Bridget Jones have long admired her films for their outrageous, hilarious and heartwarming scenes.
However, Hugh Grant warns the fourth installment in the franchise, due for release on Valentine’s Day next year will have a very different tone.
“Apart from being very funny, this film is also very, very sad,” said the actor who will return to play the charming antagonist, Daniel Cleaver.
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He also revealed there was initially “no clear role” for him in the film, but “they wanted to force me in.”
Oscar winner Renée Zellweger will also return as the title character in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. The film takes its title from the latest Bridget Jones novel, published in 2013.
In the book, readers meet Bridget in her 50s, a mother of two and widowed after the death of her husband, Mark Darcy. Mark Darcy was played by Colin Firth in the previous Bridget Jones film.
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The production studio has not commented on how closely the new film will follow the storyline of the book version, but it has been revealed author Helen Fielding wrote the script.
Speaking on the Graham Norton show, Grant stated Fielding used a real tragedy as inspiration for his storyline.
“He has a sad story,” Grant said.
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“She married an American screenwriter, had children, and then her husband died.”
Grant said Fielding then began writing a novel about a woman raising her children alone, and realized the main character was “somewhat like Bridget”.
“So he made it a Bridget Jones book,” Grant said.
“And besides being very funny, it’s also very, very sad.”
Grant, known for roles in romantic comedies such as Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral, does not appear in the third film.
He said that initially, he felt there was no “clear role” for his character, Daniel, in this fourth version either.
“But they wanted to force me in,” he said.
So, he sat down with producers to help shape the character, who in previous films was known as a playboy.
“I think what they’re proposing is good, but not extraordinary.
“I felt he needed a third dimension, because now that he’s in his 60s, he can no longer just relax on the King’s Road looking at young girls.
“Something must have happened to him during this time.
“So we found a pretty good interim story — I found a pretty good interim story.”
The final version received his approval, he said.
“It’s a really good, touching script. And I say that as someone who is very critical of scripts. It’s brilliant.”
Fielding’s first book, Bridget Jones’s Diary, was published in 1996 and its sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was released three years later.
Written in the form of a personal diary, these novels chronicle the life of an unlucky, single woman in her 30s working in London.
In 2001, the first film adaptation starring American actress Zellweger, with Grant as Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, was released.
Zellweger was nominated for an Oscar for her role, and in 2004, a sequel was released, although it did not receive the same critical acclaim.
Emma Thompson, who made her debut as Bridget’s distraught obstetrician in the third film, Bridget Jones’s Baby, will also return in the fourth film.
New faces in the cast include Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave) and Leo Woodall (One Day), who will reportedly play Bridget’s younger new love interest when she returns to dating.
Fielding previously said that he decided to write the character of Mark Darcy out of the series because he did not want Bridget to become an “overbearing wife”, a fate that Bridget found particularly sad in earlier reflections. (BBC/Z-3)
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