Hugh Grant has opened up about his choice to not seem within the third Bridget Jones film.
Whereas Hugh is ready to reprise his position as Daniel Cleaver within the upcoming fourth movie, slated for launch subsequent yr, he beforehand pulled out of the third instalment within the franchise again in 2015.
In a brand new interview with Vainness Honest, the Bafta winner admitted he merely didn’t see a method for his character to fit into the film’s storyline, which centered round Bridget changing into pregnant and never figuring out which of two potential males was the daddy.
“I actually couldn’t match my character in – he simply didn’t belong, so I stepped apart,” he advised the journal.
When a 3rd Bridget Jones movie was first introduced within the 2010s, Hugh initially signed on to affix Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth.
Nonetheless, he later pulled out, explaining on the time: “I made a decision to not do it. However I believe they’re going to go forward and do it with out Daniel […] the script is totally completely different – effectively, the script as I final noticed it a number of years in the past.”
A fourth film, primarily based on the e-book Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, accomplished filming earlier this yr, with the plot centring across the title character as she mourns the lack of her husband and father of her kids.
When he was first approached concerning the venture, Hugh was once more unenthused, telling Vainness Honest: “I liked the script – it made me cry, and I wished to assist with this one. However actually there’s no half for Daniel Cleaver in it in any respect. They wished him in it, and ultimately, they’d performed one thing I wasn’t loopy about.”
To get round this Hugh apparently “wrote some scenes” himself which made their method into the completed movie.
“It’s completely the most effective [Bridget Jones book], and I believe [the film is] very humorous and really, very transferring,” he added. “I’m not in so much, I did every week’s work, that’s it…. However once you see the movie, you’ll be very moved.”
In addition to many of the forged from the unique Bridget Jones e-book, the brand new movie will add new additions to the franchise together with One Day star Leo Woodall, Isla Fisher and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Whereas the movie can be made out there to stream throughout the pond, it is going to get a full cinematic right here within the UK in time for Valentine’s Day 2025.
