1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Bridget Jones is one of the few films so iconic 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: that it defined the culture of an entire generation. 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 2: How have you had? 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: The fourth and final installment, Mad About a Boy is 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: ready to hit our screens. 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 2: Bridget Jones, It's time to please. 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: Stars of the movie, Renees, Elwigam Chu Hotel, Edgio four. 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 3: And Leo what all? 10 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Who? 11 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 2: Hello? 12 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 3: Hello? 13 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: Hello? 14 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 3: How are you god? 15 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 4: Hi was the guing Welcome to the show. We are 16 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 4: so excited to have you on because I personally need 17 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 4: you to fill some gaps in the movie for me. 18 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 4: Because someone was quite loud when they were crying. 19 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 5: I laughed, I cried, I sobbed, but she. 20 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 3: Did it all very loud. 21 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 5: Please, there wasn't a dry imusinem Congratulations. I mean, I'm 22 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 5: a huge fan of the Bridget Jones series. But when 23 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 5: you get asked to come back for a fourth installment 24 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 5: and Bridget has changed so much, Rene, did you have 25 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 5: to really consider it and think about whether you wanted 26 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 5: to be the widow and the cougar and all these 27 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 5: different things she now embodies. 28 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 2: No, consider not a thing. I love this character. I 29 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: love her. I can't wait to see who she is 30 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 2: in this chapter of her life and to spend time 31 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 2: in her universe and to go to work with these guys. 32 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 3: I mean, come on, well, I mean too. 33 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 5: Yeah, I can imagine it was quite the rig off 34 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 5: between you two fellas. I must say that phrase. 35 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 2: I'm just learning that phrase and it's great. 36 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 5: Was there a bit of competition in the gym between 37 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 5: the two of you when preparing for this film? 38 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: No, I had no idea that title was so damn ripped, 39 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: so I didn't think I was competing. 40 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 3: And then when I saw. 41 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 4: That hits A one by A, Hotels like me, we're 42 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 4: undercover fit. We just don't like to get it out 43 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 4: a lot. Do we make exactly? 44 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm staying on this topic. To Hotel, I 45 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 5: think you've made Every mum that goes to our dad 46 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 5: who goes to school drop off now look at like 47 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 5: the yappy teacher and think, I wonder what is under there? 48 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 5: There might be more. 49 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 4: At my kids school. Most people do the drive through 50 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 4: so they don't have to get out. I guarantee you. 51 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 4: After everyone goes. 52 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 3: To the movies Thursday and sees there's the amount of 53 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 3: people I'm parking and I'm coming in. 54 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 5: Hate Leo at the first, Bridge Jones and I came 55 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 5: out in two thousand and one, I think, and I 56 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 5: think you were four. So had you seen these films 57 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 5: growing up? Did you go back and watch the originals? 58 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 3: We're watching it four years old, going yeah one day. 59 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: Probably I had no idea what was happening, but I, yeah, 60 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: I grew up with them, man. I you know, I 61 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: watched it probably every year at Christmas, and there was 62 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: no need to revisit because, like a lot of people, 63 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: Bridget just you know, is everyone's favorite friend. 64 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 3: Maybe not favorite, because that's kind of sad. What about yourself, Totel? 65 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:25,959 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean I was not for but yeah 66 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 6: close close, Yeah, not at all the but I loved it. 67 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 6: You know when I when I when I watched Bridget Jones, 68 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 6: I just remember that time. You know, it was all 69 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 6: about Bridget at that point, and it was you know, 70 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 6: the book and before that, the column, you know, the 71 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 6: actual diaries themselves, and it was just it was a 72 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 6: it was a really wonderful time and and you know, 73 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 6: the film is so brilliant, so fun, so iconic, and 74 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 6: so just to be part of that universe is really wonderful. 75 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 4: So we've we've sort of got your love this one night, 76 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 4: we've got our own sort of Bridget Jones on the team. 77 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 4: Lauren is pretty much her. In fact, you've got a 78 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 4: similar situation to the movie coming up this weekend, which 79 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 4: I know you're freaking out about it. 80 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 5: I actually do, and I'd love an answer from Bridget Jones' perspective. 81 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 5: I've been invited to a fortieth birthday and on the 82 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 5: invitation it says come dressed as a Tellytubby And I 83 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 5: don't know if I've just got that invitation and I'm 84 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 5: gonna have my Bridget Jones's moment. 85 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 3: What do I do? 86 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 6: Oh? 87 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 2: Oh, that's pretty. I see you lean into it. I 88 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 2: see good for it. You can't lose it a party 89 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 2: dressed as a teletubby, in my opinion, I mean, you 90 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 2: know it's gonna be interesting. 91 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 4: Actually, I thought when you said you have a Bridge 92 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 4: Jones situation coming up, I thought you meant you're gonna 93 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 4: hook up with a twenty eight year old this week. 94 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 2: She might she might dress as a teletubby. 95 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 4: I don't know the fan is going with her, so 96 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 4: that's not going to go down well. 97 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 5: I never know your Lughby costume. There's so many throwback 98 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 5: moments in the film. I mean pulling out your old 99 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 5: panties and saying hello, old friend. There's all these incredibly 100 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 5: nostalgic moments in the film when you first read the script, 101 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 5: that did that draw you back into it? 102 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: Oh? 103 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 6: All of it? 104 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: You know, the friends, the reintroduction of her, you know 105 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 2: her boss, and you know her universe. Really, you know, 106 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 2: I'm a sucker. I love this character and I have 107 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: for you know, a quarter of a century. 108 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, exactly. 109 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 5: It is a bit of a reunion though with Hugh Grant. 110 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 5: Having the whole cast together must have just been magic 111 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 5: for you. 112 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: That's what it felt like. It felt like a big 113 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 2: reunion and true friendships that you know, we forged over 114 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 2: twenty five years. So it saw was so special. And 115 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: I love those little winks that you're talking about, because 116 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 2: that's life, isn't it. 117 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 3: You know totally certain things. 118 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 2: You know follow us throughout, don't they? 119 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 6: Do you have? 120 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 5: I mean, look, obviously you're an incredible actress and you've 121 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 5: been in many things, but you are you are Bridget Jones. 122 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 5: When I look at you, do you carry many of 123 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 5: those qualities with you? Do you see yourself in her 124 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 5: and her in you? 125 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 2: All the time, especially in these circumstances, red carpets. 126 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 3: It's not your thing. 127 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 2: Well, when you're supposed to look nice and you're supposed 128 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 2: to you know, be I don't know, on your best 129 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 2: it's it's never the truth. It's always fake it till 130 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 2: you make it, you. 131 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 3: Know, like me, she doesn't like to leave a suburb 132 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 3: or a couch. That makes me so much happier. 133 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 4: Hey, I know, just quickly before we let you go, 134 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 4: there's been some hint that the writer said this is 135 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 4: the last one. No, she will tell you'd love it 136 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 4: to continue, no doubt, because you've just signed on to 137 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 4: the franchise. 138 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 3: Is there any chance of another one down the track? 139 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I guess that's up to Helen and 140 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 6: we'll we'll have to see. She's she's definitely sad at 141 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 6: the moment that that's that, that is it, But but 142 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 6: you never know. 143 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 3: Come on, Helen, come. 144 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 5: On, Helen. I'm with you, Leah, come on, Helen. 145 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 4: There is not many sequels apart from Police Academy that 146 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,119 Speaker 4: have gone on this long and has been this strong. 147 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 3: Congratulations, it was a ripping movie. Loved it. 148 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 5: Well done, guys, Thank you, thanks very much,