Bridget Jones is back! First pictures from fourth movie as Renée Zellweger, 55, reprises role alongside new British heartthrob
Bridget Jones is finally back, with the first glimpse at the fourth film newly revealed - showing Renée Zellweger looking as fabulous as ever as she returns as the iconic character. The fourth movie in the series will kick off with hapless Bridget navigating life as a single mum of two following the death of Colin Firth’s character Mark Darcy.
Now, new pictures of Renée show her back in her Bridget character as she struts through the streets of London. The actress looked glamorous and chic as she walked down a road seemingly full of purpose as she continued filming scenes for the new film.
She wore a green satin midi dress paired with a black cardigan and a grey fluffy jacket. She softly smiled up to the sky, seemingly with thought and admiration, as she enjoyed Bridget's dimly-lit evening stroll.
The last film Bridget Jones’s Baby, which hit our screens in 2016, saw Bridget become a mother after a complicated pregnancy that saw her struggle to determine her child’s paternity.
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson are also set to reprise their roles in the new film. It is set for US release on Valentine's Day 2025, but no date has been announced for the UK. Fans will also be excited to hear that there's are even more familiar faces joining the cast.
One Day star Leo Woodall (who plays Dexter Mayhew in the series) will be joining the sequel. Leo has become a household name since starring in the Netflix series adapted from the novel by David Nicholls, alongside Ambika Mod, who plays Emma Morley, in One Day.
Leo is rumoured to be playing Bridget's younger love interest in the fourth instalment as she prepares to get back into the dating world.
The film take its title from the latest Bridget Jones novel, published in 2013. It will see sees Bridget in her 50s a mother to two children and widowed following the death of Mark Darcy – however, it’s not clear whether this is the plot that the film adaptation will follow.
The Texan actress became a household name in the UK after taking on the unlucky-in-love role for the 2001 film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s best-selling 1996 novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary . It's now been more than two decades since Helen’s heroine first hit the silver screen, and Renée’s convincing English accent won the nation’s approval.
And as it’s been eight years since we last saw Bridget on screen in 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, fans are very excited indeed about catching up with her latest exploits.
But the actress reckons she has plenty of similarities with Bridget and has said she often found her extremely relatable. “I completely relate to Bridget. More than I’d like to admit,” she said in 2016.
“I think all of us, including myself, relate to Bridget Jones in her imperfections. The heart of Bridget is the truth of who the person is versus who she thinks she’s supposed to be.” Since the release of the third Bridget Jones film, Renée went on to win her second Academy Award in 2020 for her leading role as famed singer and actress Judy Garland in the biographical film, Judy.
When asked about a fourth movie instalment, Helen Fielding previously told Radio Times: “Every film that gets made is a miracle. I think it's really difficult to make films and to make them happen and to make them good and we want it to be really good. But I really hope so. I'd love to see it on the screen.”
