“Bridget Jones…” the celebrated rom-com protagonist scrawls in her diary in the new film: “it’s time to live.” Bridget is indeed bursting back into life – and back into our lives – in the fourth adaptation of Helen Fielding’s most famous creation, in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
Springing from the pages of Fielding’s 1996 book – first published as a column in The Independent a year earlier – Bridget and her life first hit the big screen in 2001 in Bridget Jones’s Diary and a funny, sweary, cigarette-smoking, hopeless romantic icon was cemented, and taken to the hearts of many people a similar age and position in life.
Despite neither Bridget Jones’s Diary nor Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy being Christmas films, they both have big, pivotal declarations of love taking place in a snowy London street.
In what became an iconic scene from the first movie, Bridget is invited to a pity party full of smug married couples who ask her things like: “Why is it that there are so many unmarried women in their 30s these days, Bridget?”.
And despite her now living in a huge house in Hampstead, her media job is based around London Bridge, so 2025 Bridget is just like 2001 Bridget, and fond of an empowering stride along the SE1 backdrop.
