Renee Zellweger has mentioned the connection her character Bridget Jones has together with her boss within the 2001 romcom wouldn’t be acceptable in in the present day’s office.
Within the first instalment of the Bridget Jones’s Diary franchise, Bridget is seduced by her boss, Daniel Cleaver (performed by Hugh Grant) on the London publishing home they each work at, earlier than she finds out he’s additionally seeing one other colleague.
Talking forward of the discharge of the fourth movie – Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy – for British Vogue, Zellweger, 55, mentioned she thought HR would take a “stern” strategy to related behaviour in the present day.
Grant, 64, requested: “For instance, our romance, do you think people would think that’s very inappropriate? He’s her boss and he’s exploiting his powerful position. Where do you stand on that?”
To which the actress replied: “Well, I’m sure HR would have some stern rules down at the publishing house these days, don’t you think?”
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Zellweger mentioned her on-screen romance with Grant can be met with ‘stern’ guidelines from HR in the present day. Pic: Everett/Shutterstock
When quizzed if she would report Daniel over his behaviour, she added: “I’m really glad I don’t have to have an opinion about this in real life.
“This sounds difficult. I am positive there would’ve been the assembly, proper? Everybody would’ve needed to get collectively and discuss the way you interact with folks.”
Grant replied: “And Daniel would’ve needed to be re-educated.”
The actress also said the pressures and prejudices of getting married, which Bridget worries about, was something her mother’s generation “could not escape”.
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Zellweger is joined by Leo Woodall within the new Bridget Jones movie. Pic: Common Photos
She added: “You were not valuable as a woman if you were not partnered up and beginning your own family by a certain age. But I don’t think that women my age are imposing that on their daughters.”
Each Zellweger and Grant reprise their roles for the upcoming movie, which follows Bridget as a 50-something widow with two kids, after the demise of affection curiosity Mark Darcey (performed by Colin Firth) some years earlier.
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Pic: Nikolai von Bismarck/British Vogue
Grant didn’t function within the third instalment in 2016, Bridget Jones’s Child, by which his character appeared to have been killed off, and Bridget grew to become pregnant.
The movie noticed billionaire US love guru Jack Qwant, performed by Patrick Dempsey, compete for Bridget towards Mark.
This time, 12 Years A Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor and One Day actor Leo Woodall be part of the forged.
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is in UK cinemas on 14 February.
