The brand new Bridget Jones film, which stars Renée Zellweger, Leo Woodall, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, is just not what you would possibly count on—and that’s a good thing. Besides, some elements of the franchise needed to stay for the fourth and sure last installment.
Fortunate for us, it comes within the type of one more water scene by which a sizzling man (Leo Woodall’s Roxster, this time) wears a white button-down shirt that’s plastered to his chiseled physique. “There’s a proud custom of gorgeous males strolling out of water within the Bridget Jones movies,” director Michael Morris tells Glamour of the second that Roxster jumps into the for-decor-only fountain to rescue a canine in Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy.
Morris acknowledges, in fact, that the custom goes again even additional—all the way in which to the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pleasure and Prejudice, in which Colin Firth as Fitzwilliam Darcy emerges from the lake in his white shirt. “This was an enormous inspiration for us as a result of I wished to suggest slightly tiny piece of that, the unique Mark Darcy,” Morris says. “Molly Emma Rowe, our costume designer, and I checked out photos and labored on a search for that shirt that he’s sporting, which might cling precisely the precise approach.”
Morris says that “poor outdated Leo” needed to undergo many check pictures and preserve leaping into swimming pool with “denims on and every part” as a way to get the scene excellent. “Simply to permit for that second of him rising out [of the water] and taking and peeling it off was actually essential,” the director says.
The scene took two days to movie, however Morris provides that the attractive London climate made it a lot simpler and “we have been all gleeful about it, together with Leo.”
Nevertheless, Woodall’s delight over the scene got here from a really totally different place. “I had the perfect deal as a result of it was a 100-degree day, and I bought to splash about in a pool,” Woodall tells Glamour with fun. “Everybody else needed to stand there in uncomfortable fits and attire and sweat their approach by way of the day.”
After all that grouping included Bridget Jones herself, Renée Zellweger. “Sure, we have been all very jealous,” she says in settlement.
“Yeah, everybody was very jealous,” Woodall says. “However no, it was actually, actually enjoyable.”
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