When she was 30, and was nowhere near being in love with children, or finding those answers, I felt that was definitely me then. “I like the idea that I kind of charted my life along Bridget’s life. “It’d be interesting,” Maguire wonders aloud. With this new chapter of Bridget Jones’s life drawing to a close, we wonder whether there is any chance for another follow-up. I think probably the person who came up with the was probably Debra Hayward, the producer.” It was a kind of good, interesting debate. When we took the film out to test, it really was a fifty-fifty. “I’m still stuck in the middle as to whose baby it should be. The key question, of whose baby it is, we wanted to keep that open for awhile.” Maguire went as far as showing test audiences both endings, and found that even they had a hard time choosing. “Partly, it’s because we didn’t know how we wanted to end it, and partly because we thought with social media and everything, endings get out, and so we were a bit worried about that. “We decided that quite early on, that we should shoot two endings,” Maguire explains. She was able to really absorb that world.” “The people who man the cameras, they’re all people from Good Morning Britain, who she hung out with and worked with,” laughs Maguire. Maguire says that Zellweger got along so well with the crew that she invited it to appear in the movie. Zellweger is so keen on character preparation that she also helped figure out how the interior of Bridget’s apartment would be furnished these days, and spent time shadowing a producer at Good Morning Britain, a breakfast news show in the U.K., to better understand her character’s new career. To do so, the duo worked out every minute detail about what Bridget has been up to-from how much money she makes as a news producer (about £80,000) to how she could conceivably afford to live in her same neighborhood, which has become quite expensive and “chichi” in the last decade (“We worked out she was paying a mortgage and no one else would want to buy that place with two railways running right beside of it”).

With a script in place-from Bridget Jones mastermind Helen Fielding, plus Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson-Maguire and Zellweger went about re-acquainting themselves with their title character, last seen some 12 years ago.

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