Hugh Grant rewrote his ‘Bridget Jones 4’ half earlier than becoming a member of film

Hugh Grant is returning to the world of Bridget Jones’s Diary — however he made some tweaks to the film earlier than he signed on.

The actor just lately mentioned his half within the forthcoming Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy (out Valentine’s Day 2025), saying he was impressed by the screenplay however remained unhappy along with his character’s position in it.

“I liked the script — it made me cry, and I needed to assist with this one,” Grant recalled in a brand new interview with Vainness Truthful. “However actually there is no half for Daniel Cleaver in it in any respect. They needed him in it, and in the long run, they’d achieved one thing I wasn’t loopy about.”

So the Notting Hill star, who sometimes prepares meticulously earlier than a venture, determined to remodel the fabric himself. “I wrote some scenes,” he stated, noting that they finally ended up within the remaining model of the script. 

Now, Grant has nothing however reward for the brand new venture — although he is not going to faux he is an enormous a part of it. “It is completely the perfect [Bridget Jones book], and I believe it’s totally humorous and really, very transferring,” he stated. “I am not in loads, I did per week’s work, that is it… However whenever you see the movie, you may be very moved.”

Grant was one-third of the basic love triangle within the authentic Bridget Jones’s Diary in 2001, which noticed his Daniel Cleaver compete with Colin Firth‘s Mark Darcy for the guts of Renée Zellweger‘s titular protagonist. Grant’s womanizer character is usually in comparison with his actual self, the actor advised Vainness Truthful, saying, “There are individuals in my life who’ve at all times stated, ‘Oh, that is far more like the actual Hugh.'” He finally misplaced the battle within the first film, however Daniel returned for 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Motive for an additional spherical of flirtation and betrayal.

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Grant opted out of the third film, Bridget Jones’s Child, in 2016. “I actually could not match my character in — he simply did not belong, so I stepped apart,” Grant advised Vainness Truthful. Consequently, Daniel was written out of the movie, presumed lifeless after a airplane crash. It appears rumors of Daniel’s demise have been drastically exaggerated, nonetheless, as a newspaper headline on the finish of the third film revealed that he’s truly nonetheless alive. Grant’s character will now make his approach again to Bridget’s neighborhood within the fourth installment.

Grant’s subsequent movie, the A24 thriller Heretic, hits theaters Nov. 15. Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy — which is able to convey Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, and Isla Fisher into the collection for the primary time — lands in theaters and on Peacock on Feb. 14, 2025.