Before Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey were Oscar winners, they were in The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a movie that was never going to win one. The actors have come a long way since they were 25 in that 1995 Horror movie.
Renée Zellweger tells Deadline that she will "never be done with Bridget Jones" and reveals that 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy' might not be the final chapter in the beloved character's story pic.twitter.com/JxZrOZ93bB
Renée Zellweger has played Bridget in four movies, including the upcoming Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Is the actress ready to say goodbye to the role she has been playing since 2001? Yesterday, she told Deadline on the red carpet for the fourth film, “I’ll never be done with Bridget Jones. I love Bridget Jones. So, hopefully, Helen [Fielding] might, you know, spark something, want to share something through the Bridget character, again, down the line, you know?”
Will she get her wish? And do we need another Bridget Jones? It will be easier to answer after the movie hits theaters and Peacock the day before Valentine’s Day.
The first Bridget Jones movie was a big hit with fans, as was the second one. The third was not so much. Therefore, you think they would have stopped there. But they did not.
On February 13th, we are getting Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy on Peacock. And they are killing off the best part of the franchise, the love story between Bridget (Renne Zellwegger) and Mark (Colin Firth). They literally killed off Mark.
In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar® winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor).
When I heard about the film, I was like, “Do we need this?” After watching this trailer, I know we didn’t.
On a positive note, it is the final movie in Bridget’s diary.
Before Renee Zellweggeer was a murderer in The Thing About Pam, her sister was one in Murder in the Heartland. She looks the same now as 23 in that 1993 movie.
Tonight at 10p on NBC, Dateline’s investigation into Pam Hupp comes to life with Renee Zellwegger in The Thing About Pam.
Betsy Faria is found dead, and her husband is accused of her murder. Russ (Glenn Fleshler) discovered his wife’s body and has a history of abusing her. Therefore, the prosecutor (Judy Greer) thinks she has an open and shut case. Especially because Pam Hupp (Zellwegger), who was the last person to see her alive, keeps giving Askey (Greer) tons of evidence that points his way.
Joel Schwartz (Josh Duhamel) comes to Lincoln County to defend Russ. He has work cut out for him because everyone thinks that Russ did it. That and all the legal people are in cahoots with Askey. Schwartz thinks Pam did it. But again, he keeps hitting roadblocks.
In each episode, you will get to see how the case is being built against Russ and Pam at the same time. Who will be guilty of the crime?
The first episode is slow because they have to give you the history. But every episode after that picks up the pace, and you are going to want to know what happens next. People were glued to the podcast, and they are going to be glued to this limited series. So tune in tonight for a murder mystery based on an actual crime.
You know it has to be good if an Oscar winner asks to play the lead role on television.
