Her old flame, the incorrigibly roguish Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant on fine form), is still around, but she’s much too old for him now.
She has become, he tells her, ‘effectively a nun’] This film’s other title character is played by Leo Woodall, star of TV dramas The White Lotus and One Day.
funny - and the best Bridget since the original Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (15, 125 minutes).
But director Michael Morris (whose experience is mainly in television, on the majestic Better Call Saul among other hit shows) ensures that these comic set pieces do not interrupt the narrative flow, which also has Bridget apprehensively going back to work as a TV producer.
I took my grown-up daughter (who’d barely started school when the first film, Bridget Jones’ Diary, came out) to last month’s world premiere, and she had to suppress hysterical laughter more than once, especially when a lip-serum injection goes badly, hilariously wrong.
