Renée Zellweger has been doing the press rounds for her latest transformative role in NBC’s true-crime drama The Thing About Pam, yet it’s one of her most famous performances that has everybody talking, because the Academy-Award winning actress has revealed that she hopes to play Bridget Jones once again.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show (which you can watch here), the Judy actress responded to a question about whether she’d like to return to the iconic role by saying “I hope so. I hope so” before adding “I mean, it’s fun, you know, she’s so much fun. I love being in her shoes. I mean, it makes me giggle, you know, every day on set the choices that we get to make about just how awkward we can make her circumstances. It’s just so much fun. And I find her so endearing, you know, he self-deprecating sort of determination.”
Zellweger continued effusing about Jones, reminding viewers that author Helen Fielding had written another Bridget Jones novel, 2013’s Mad About the Boy, which is yet to make it to the big-screen. She said “I love her. And I think it’s really rare to get to follow a character through different stages in her life. And in a way that we find her relatable, because she parallels our own life experiences at that time,” adding “Yeah, I hope so. I mean, Helen did write another book, so there’s that, you know. We’ll see.”
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The last outing for Zellweger as Bridget Jones was in 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, which still made over $200M worldwide, that despite being released over a decade after 2004’s critically derided The Edge of Reason.
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