It ‘never felt necessary’ to revisit Bridget Jones’s weight in new film, says director The director of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has said that her weight ‘never felt like something we needed to revisit’ in the new film.
?e Zellweger as Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, directed by Michael Morris.]
Michael Morris helms the fourth Bridget movie, which comes nearly 25 years after the first, 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, and after two sequels which followed in 2004 and 2016 respectively.
However, Bridget’s weight and calorie intake doesn’t factor into Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, despite it featuring in Fielding’s 2013 novel of the same name.
‘I’m careful because I grew up with Bridget, and I actually, weirdly, felt really connected to Bridget as not a woman, but I’m also really aware that that I probably would have connected to her differently had I been a woman.
