Reuniting
Bridget with the woman Empire 2016 Preview
- Bridget Jones’s Baby When Helen Fielding published Mad
About The Boy in 2013, another big-screen Bridget seemed
inevitable. But with (spoiler alert) the devastating demise of Mark Darcy
in its pages, and considering the somewhat lukewarm reception to sequel The
Edge Of Reason back in 2004, it wasn’t nailed on to receive a
rapturous reception. Until, that is, it was announced that the third film
would not be an adaptation of the book (phew) – but a
brand-new story written by Fielding and David Nicholls set, timeline-wise,
somewhere between the final two novels. Bridget is now 43 but still,
before becoming pregnant at least, living the same old life, just now
armed with an iPad. When Empire visited the set in Windsor, we
witness a classicly slapstick Bridget scene as she ends up face down in the mud at a music festival before being
rescued/hoisted up by the bum of her previously white jeans by Patrick
Dempsey, who joins the franchise as her new love interest. Daniel Cleaver
may be missing this time, but two important figures from the initial film
are very present: Colin Firth as Mark Darcy (who may also be the daddy)
and director Sharon Maguire. |