Keeping up with Bridget Jones

Nearly 25 years after the first of the films about the ultimate singleton, Renée Zellweger discusses the resting place for her character’s massive knickers

Hollie Richardson

“Isn’t that a cool thing that Helen created a character that people want to talk about for 30 years? MARK DARCY IS DEAD. Bridget Jones fans have been grieving since 2013, when Helen Fielding’s third novel, Mad About the Boy, was published sans Bridget’s hot human-rights lawyer husband. The outcry made front page news. People could not believe that romcom’s favourite reindeer-jumper-wearing dish, who proved that – ding dong! – nice men do kiss like that, was no more. “Someone ran out of the pub shouting: ‘You’ve murdered Colin Firth!’” Fielding says over a video call, tulips arranged on a huge wooden table in the background. “I just want to point out that he is fictional. Colin Firth is not dead.” His reaction after being told over the phone? “‘You’ve…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 7 February 2025

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