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Update | Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger, Leo Woodall light up latest Bridget Jones film’s premiere

Played by Zellweger, Bridget Jones is back, 51, a widow and single parent, in Mad About The Boy, new film about the hapless 1990s singleton

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US actress Renee Zellweger and British actor Leo Woodall pose at the London premiere of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, in which Zellweger reprises her role as Bridget and Woodall plays her much younger love interest. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Hollywood star Renee Zellweger marked the return of Bridget Jones – the chardonnay-swigging, calorie-counting hapless 1990s singleton – at the British premiere of the franchise’s upcoming film Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Zellweger said at the event on January 29 that her character “feels like an old friend”, and that it is the character’s vulnerability that connects with audiences.

“I think a lot of people relate to the challenges that she finds her way through, her vulnerability,” Zellweger said on the red carpet.

She praised writer Helen Fielding for creating a character that many people find endearing, as well as “moments that seem universally and cross-generationally relatable”.

Texan actor Zellweger famously piled on a few pounds and successfully cultivated a British accent to star as Bridget alongside Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in the original 2001 smash hit Bridget Jones’s Diary, based on Fielding’s London-set 1996 hit novel of the same title.
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