Hugh Grant has actually told us what happened to Daniel Cleaver before Bridget Jones 4
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Hugh Grant has revealed his grand ‘interim story’ for Daniel Cleaver ahead of his return in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, 24 years on.
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The 64-year-old actor last appeared in the rom-com franchise for 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and the 2004 sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Two decades later, 00s most notorious fictional player Daniel Cleaver, is making a return to the silver screen. Although he’s not quite as insufferable as he was all those years ago.
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In fact, after alluding to a lengthy backstory he created to fill in the gap, he finally revealed exactly what he had concocted in his imagination in a resurfaced clip from November. And it is packed with the most Daniel Cleaveresque behaviour you’ll read today.
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The Heretic star said: ‘The one we’ve just made, he’s considerably older. 24 years older or something and I did worry about the “hello, nice little skirt Jones’. ‘[It] is great but would be borderline tragic for a man in his early 60s,’ he told Vanity Fair.
Before continuing: ‘So we invented a whole interim story in which he did get together with some woman and he did have a kid and they’re estranged, of course, cause he shags her sister. And he hasn’t seen his son in ten years. ‘It just made him a bit more…,’ he said, looking for the words. ‘I think if he had just been walking up and down Kings Road chatting up girls for 24 years, it would have been hard to endure him.’.
