By Hugh Grant returns to the “Bridget Jones’s Diary” franchise with the upcoming fourth installment of the series “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” opening next year.
Grant was a major part of the first as a romantic ‘bad boy’ foil Daniel Cleaver for Renee Zellweger’s Bridget. He had a supporting role in the second film and sat out the third.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, he reveals he’s back in the fourth film albeit in a short appearance this time in what he thinks is based on the best book of the series:
“It’s absolutely the best [Bridget Jones book], and I think it’s very funny and very, very moving. I’m not in a lot, I did a week’s work, that’s it… But when you see the film, you’ll be very moved.”
He also tells the outlet that while he was impressed by the screenplay at first, he was unsatisfied with his character’s role in it:
“I loved the script – it made me cry, and I wanted to help with this one. But really there’s no part for Daniel Cleaver in it at all. They wanted him in it, and in the end, they’d done something I wasn’t crazy about.”
As a result, he reworked the material himself, saying: “I wrote some scenes” and adding that they ended up in the final version of the script.
Grant will next be seen in the A24 thriller “Heretic” which hits cinemas November 15th.
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