Renée Zellweger Cried Shooting Colin Firth’s Scene in ‘Bridget Jones’

Renée Zellweger  admitted she had “a tough time” when she first met her costar Hugh Grant in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” as a result of she was “such a fan.”

“I used to be so nervous, I simply didn’t need to make a jerk out of myself,” she revealed. “I didn’t succeed.” She famous that in school, she lived above an unbiased movie show and would see all of the British movie that got here by means of, together with “Maurice” and “Impromptu.”

“I simply thought, ‘Gosh he’s so good-looking!’ And now I’m going to do a film with him?” Zellweger mentioned.

Zellweger was talking on Saturday to an viewers following an FYC screening of “Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy,” the fourth and remaining installment within the rom-com collection tailored from Helen Fielding’s novels, now streaming on Peacock. The 2-time Oscar winner mirrored on 25 years of enjoying the beloved character and her chemistry along with her fellow actors. She additionally remained practically two hours post-Q&A to talk to attendees at a reception together with tea sandwiches and shepherd’s pie. Additionally current was director Michael Morris, who spoke about casting Chewitel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall as Bridget’s love pursuits within the newest movie.

“I used to be completely laser-focused on attempting to get Leo and Chewitel within the movie,” mentioned Morris, who additionally had the problem of casting Jones’ youngsters along with her late husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), with newcomers Casper Knof and Mila Jankovic. Morris detailed how Zellweger first met the youngsters throughout a rehearsal that was held on her birthday. “They’re English youngsters, they are often fairly reserved,” mentioned Morris. “On the very starting it was like, ‘Whats up’ after which, actually, inside about 45 minutes, they’re crawling throughout you. Mila was placing slime in your hair and Casper’s attempting to play chess with you. I knew immediately that they have been going to be a household.”

Requested in regards to the secret to good chemistry, Zellweger replied, “I’ve been actually fortunate, and I like the those that I’ve gotten to work with. There’s all the time one thing that I love a lot [about them], and we all the time appear to have a good time.”

Although Firth’s character has handed when the movie opens, the actor does make a return look within the film as a imaginative and prescient to his widow. Questioning how Zellweger didn’t cry once they shot these scenes, Morris revealed, “She did!”

Zellweger added that it was a tough scene to shoot as a result of her character shouldn’t be crying, having misplaced her husband 4 years prior and made her peace with it. “But seeing him there on the sidewalk in his Mark Darcy finery along with his briefcase and coat, it simply obtained to me,” she admitted. “I didn’t anticipate to be so emotional in regards to the finish of this shared journey with my good friend, recognizing, ‘Oh, wait, he’s gonna wrap in the present day, and that’s it.’ And the finality of it simply actually was a intestine punch.

“Isn’t that loopy? As a result of if you get fortunate, past attending to work with your pals, as soon as you already know, it sounds so foolish, nevertheless it felt very profound within the second.”  Zellweger mentioned earlier than laughing, “Perhaps I’m loopy as a result of perhaps I like a fictional character!”