Bridget Jones’s Baby TBC
Released 16 September
Director Sharon Maguire
Starring Renée Zellweger,
Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey
Well, there’s Bridget,
but where’s the baby?
Watch the
trailer
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JUN
Fifteen years after
the v. good original
and 12 years after
the almost-as-v.-good sequel,
Bridget Jones is back. And
guess what? She’s only
blooming single again!
Based on the newspaper
columns author Helen
Fielding wrote for The
Independent in 2005, rather
than her third, somewhat
controversial* Bridget Jones
novel Mad About the Boy,
Bridget Jones’s Baby sees
our favourite “wanton sex
16
SEPT
goddess” – now 43 years of
age – embracing the single life
once again after breaking up
with her long-term squeeze
Mark Darcy (Colin Firth
– The King’s Speech).
Despite the split, our klutzy
heroine is feeling upbeat.
She’s got an exciting new
job as producer of a news
programme, is getting
on well with her ex (well,
kind of anyway) and there’s
a new man on the scene in the
form of hunky Jack Qwant
(Patrick Dempsey – Grey’s
Anatomy’s McDreamy).
In true Bridget fashion,
however, life is about to take
a turn for the topsy-turvy. As
it turns out, she’s up the duff.
To make matters worse,
she doesn’t know who the
father is. There’s a 50 per
cent chance it’s Mark,
and a 2/1 chance it’s Jack.
As Emma Thompson’s
hilarious baby doctor puts
it: “It’s like the final of
The X-Factor. Dial 01 if you
want it to be Mark and 02
if you want it to be Jack...”
Once again starring Renée
Zellweger (who really does
have the posh British accent
down to a tee) as Bridget,
with fantastic support from
Firth and Dempsey, this
third instalment is a bit like
having a baby: a long time
in production, but so very
worth the wait.
You’ll have to read Mad About
the Boy to find out why it caused
uproar, we’re giving nothing away!
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