Almost nine years after the theatrical release of Bridget Jones Babythe cult heroine created by author Helen Fielding will make her comeback to the cinema in Bridget Jones : Very lazy. Directed by Michael Morris, this highly anticipated comedy will be released in France on February 12, just before Valentine’s Day.
A sequel with Bridget Jones… but without Mark Darcy
In this fourth film, adapted from the third volume by Helen Fielding released in bookstores in 2013, we find Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) when she is 52 years old, mother of two children… and widowed. Mark Darcy – played by Colin Firth, who we see as a “ghost” in the trailer – has in fact died 4 years ago. After long years of mourning, Bridget is once again in search of the ideal man. But it’s not so easy to get back on the single market…
She will notably cross paths with a man much younger than her, Roxster, played by Leo Woodall, a 28-year-old British actor seen in the series The White Lotus et A day.
Hugh Grant in the casting for this new sequel
If spectators will therefore have to mourn Mark Darcy, they will have the pleasure of finding Hugh Grant on screen. Absent from Bridget Jones Babythe actor will indeed make his return in the shoes of Bridget’s former boss, the attractive but detestable Daniel Cleaver. Actress Emma Thompson will also be in the credits of Bridget Jones : Very lazy. She will reprise her role as Doctor Rawling, the gynecologist who follows Bridget Jones’ pregnancy in the third film released in theaters.
Another star of this new film: Chiwetel Ejiofor (Twelve Years a Slave), chosen to play Mr. Wallaker, teacher at Bridget Jones’ children’s school. A key character in the novel, to whom the heroine could well get closer… To be discovered at the cinema in 2025.
