Hugh Grant says new Bridget Jones movie ‘crammed’ him as there was ‘no obvious role’

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Hugh Grant has revealed he was “crammed in” to the brand new Bridget Jones’ film, regardless of there being “no apparent function” for him.

Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy, marks the fourth instalment of the franchise and will likely be launched on Valentine’s Day subsequent 12 months. Primarily based on the 2013 e-book of the identical title, it follows Renée Zellweger as a newly single mother-of-two navigating the fashionable world of courting.

The films, based mostly on the books by The Unbiased columnist, Helen Fielding, achieved unprecedented success and an Oscar nomination for Zellweger, all through the 2000s and 2010s.

The unique forged members included Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy.

Rumours had swirled that Grant and Firth might reprise their roles for the brand new movie, with Grant confirming his involvement in an interview with Self-importance Honest earlier this 12 months.

Now, the actor has admitted that he was squeezed into the story, though his function initially made no sense.

“It’s a good and shifting script – this can be very humorous however very unhappy,” he mentioned on The Graham Norton Present on Thursday (3 October).

“There was no apparent function for me, however I used to be crammed in.”

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“So we didn’t have a 60-year-old Daniel Cleaver wandering round taking a look at younger women, I made up a great interim story for him.”

Grant didn’t seem within the 2004 sequel, The Fringe of Cause, and instructed Self-importance Honest final month, “I actually couldn’t match my character in—he simply didn’t belong, so I stepped apart.”

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He had initially turned down a component within the fourth instalment of the film too, saying “they’d carried out one thing I wasn’t loopy about.” Nonetheless, as soon as he was capable of write “some scenes” within the movie, he determined to return on board.

He added, “It’s completely the perfect (e-book) and I believe it’s very humorous and really, very shifting. I’m not in lots, I did every week’s work, that’s it … However while you see the movie, you’ll be very moved.”

Firth seems to not be making a return for the sequel, along with his character written off within the books. Nonetheless, it’s unclear whether or not the film will stay trustworthy to the supply materials.