WEBVTT - Bridget Jones's Diary with Amy Solomon 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.680 On the be Dol cast, The questions asked if movies 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.360 have women in them, are all their discussions just boyfriends 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.520 and husbands, or do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:18.200 in best start changing it with the bel cast. Hey, Caitlin, yes, Jamie, 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:20.840 am I okay, this is not going to pass the 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.760 backdel test. But am I completely alone in having a 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:31.600 lifelong struggle with knowing the difference of Colin being on 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.760 screen and Hugh being on screen? Is that something you've 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.720 ever Have you ever been like, oh, yeah, it was 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.640 Colin Firth or it was huge, because it's usually one 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.680 or the other, but when it's both, I don't even 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.879 know if my notes make a shred of sense. I 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.680 have not had this problem. I know that they're both 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.680 like stuffy english men, but they look different enough to 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.680 me that I can very easily tell them apart their 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.760 hair is different and their eye color is different, and 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.920 they're faces are so different, face structures different. But they're 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.080 the same guy though, you know, like they're the same guy. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.640 Like they've both won awards, they've both pivoted to drama, 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.160 they've both they both say cute little things, and it's like, 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.360 I guess the difference is what, like, Hugh Grant is 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:20.120 horny ar like that Hugh Grant, he's got more charmed, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.360 like raw charmed to him, whereas like Colin Firth tends 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.720 to be more like stoic and awkward. I feel like 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.200 it's just like that. I don't know the difference between them, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.600 and I refused to learn. I think that like Hugh 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.360 Grant is I mean, if we're like in a death match. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.959 I hate to turn men against men, but if we're 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.080 in a death match, I guess I would probably choose 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.920 Hugh Grant to survive. Well, he was the villain in 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.960 Paddington too, so he's a part of the Paddington extended 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.800 universe and therefore cree and it's like, what is Colin 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.080 Firth three? I mean Colin Firth is bringing Oh no, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.760 what if I'm wrong? Colin Firth is in What a 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.360 Girl Wants? Is that right? Yes, that's him, not Hugh Grant. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.120 See it's hard well because I haven't really seen that movie. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.520 Um here's a fun fact. Everyone. Colin Firth was originally 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.880 cast to be the voice of Paddington, but then they 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.680 thought that he just didn't sound quite right, so they 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.000 had to recast him. They're like, he's too similar to 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:21.000 Huge Grant. People get confused. It's there to me, they're 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.960 different flavors of the same exact person. Like if you 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.440 if you have like a little like a little volume, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.080 if you turn the volume down, you get calling first. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.160 I also get, and then if you bring Colin Farrell, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.079 you're like, oh my god, another like brunette European man 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.360 that I'm just like, I couldn't pick out of a lineup. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.320 I know that moms know the difference, but I just 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.920 this is their names confused because they're both calling f 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.320 and then I get, yeah, I get Hugh Jackman and 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.480 Hugh Grant. Not that the people confused, but I accidentally 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:58.160 call I switched their names around. Hugh Jackman. Has I guess, yeah, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.200 Hugh Jackman and and Hugh Grant. I mean they both 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.400 kind of have a theater kid energy. But it's like again, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.840 it's like Hugh Grant the volumes turned down a little bit. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.600 Then Hugh Jackman, it's like at a forty, you know, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.400 Hugh Jackman. Sometimes I'm like relaxed, but then other times 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.040 I love it. I don't why are we talking about 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.320 We're talking about welcome to the Bechtel Cast. This is 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.359 not what it's normally like. I just I just want 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.560 to like, I'm feeling excited but insecure going into this 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.080 episode because I know there's a point in my notes 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.120 on this movie where I realized I had the two 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:36.080 character names mixed up and that I didn't know which 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.880 one was. I went through whole scenes of Colin Firth 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.920 being like, anyways, Hugh Grant, like, it's just it's hard 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.520 for me. I know that there's going to be a 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.000 bunch of people who are like, how could you not 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.040 tell the difference between I don't know the difference between men? 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.400 And that's feminism. I'll do my best to guide you 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.680 through this. Jamie, thank you. Welcome to the Bechtel Cast. Um. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.160 You know if this is your first episode, that funny. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:08.360 Uh yeah. So our show is the podcast where we 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.680 usually condemn the talking about men. But it's kind of 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:17.360 a loophole. If you're like, who are these people? True, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.760 We're like exactly, um, But in any case, so the 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.440 Bechtel Cast is our show where we examine movies through 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.800 an intersectional feminist lens, using the Bechtel test as a 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.400 jumping off point, and of course That is a media 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:36.039 metric created by queer cartoonist Alison Bechtel. Our rendition of 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.440 the test requires that two people of any marginalized gender 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.520 have names speak to each other about something other than 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.520 a man for at least a two line exchange of dialogue. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.680 Most movies can't get you there, Nor was the first 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.600 four minutes of this episode getting listen, it does happen, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.240 It does happen. I just was. I'm so nerv us. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.160 I know it's going to happen at least once where 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.599 I'm like, Also, naming them Daniel and Mark does not 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.080 help me, Like, I'm just like a great the two 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.840 most generic British guy names to describe the two most 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.360 generous British guy actor. Like, this is just it's not 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.120 going to be good. However, we have so today we're 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:24.240 talking about Bridget jones diary. It's been a popular request 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.640 really since the show has existed. It's, you know, kind 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.200 of an early auts rom com staple, and you know, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.880 it took us five years, but here we are, and 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:38.640 I'm so excited for our guest today. Yes, she is 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.200 a TV producer and her book Notes from the Bathroom 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:48.440 Line comes out March sixteen. It's Amy Solomon. Hello, thank you, 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:54.200 this is so flun Sorry for really dragging out that intro. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.799 I loved it. I loved every second of it. Welcome, 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.479 thank you for bringing this movie. What is your What 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.920 is your history with Bridget Jones? I guess this we're 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.880 covering the first movie, but in general with the cannon 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.440 of Bridget Jones. Um. I I don't know that I 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.760 had ever seen this. I do think i'd seen parts 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.279 because some some scenes I was like, oh okay, But 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.280 I guess I think my history is just that my 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:30.000 mom is so horny for these guys, like just oh 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.160 my god, these are her guys. Moms know the difference. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.320 I called her last night and said we were talking 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.839 about it today and made her. I was like, ultimately, 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.119 if you had to pick Colin Firth or Hugh Grant, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.400 she couldn't do it. She got all flustered. Oh my gosh. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.360 I kind of wonder if we were like, who are 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.000 like two random British guys that we would do this 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.800 for today, because it's like, who would like my child 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.159 be like, what is the difference between these men? It 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.479 would be like Robert Pattinson and some mother guy where 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.680 I'm a big fan of Nicholas Holt, so he would 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.839 be in my top two. Dude, if you put Robert 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.240 Pattinson and Nicholas Holt on screen, we would be like 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.840 frothing to the ends of the earth and are and 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.760 like the next generation could be like, Um, I don't 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.560 I see two identical men? You know? Is this the 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.240 only you know what I was? I meant to look 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:24.960 this up? Is this the only movie they've ever been 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:31.360 in together? Colin and Hugh they were in love actually together? Okay, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:36.560 they're both in the Bridget Jones sequel Edge of Reason. Um, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.680 there's got to be sorry if I'm being like unreasonable here, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.320 I'm just like it was. It really was like so 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:47.280 confusing to me, So I think what the movie should 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:52.320 be this Bridget Jones has to choose between Alfred Molina 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:58.480 and Paddington and then at the end they're like, let's 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:04.400 be Polly beautiful a house together. That would be so nice. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.320 I'm also seeing that Hugh Grant and Colin Firth were 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.280 possibly born the same week. It says, oh, I looked 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.040 this up. It's the day A day apart. This was 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:19.000 in the IMDb trivia. There's something like planet wise, going like, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.240 maybe it has nothing to do with looks and it's 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.200 just a planetary thing going on, because they just give 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.160 you the same spiritual vibe. They both they both recently 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.720 turned sixty. Congrats to them. I honestly, you know, if 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.520 I would, absolutely, you know, have a what is it? 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:41.200 What's British dalliance with Hugh Grant? You prefer I'm a Colin. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.360 I prefer Colinn. See. I think I'm a hue. See 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.280 I've read too much about he doesn't seem like the 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:53.079 greatest guy. Oh no, I believe that it's called I 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.480 could see. I mean again, I guess I'm just judging 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.320 on strictly their movie characters. I'm like, oh, Colin Firth 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.080 is probably a family man and Hugh Grant is probably not. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.000 I would highly recommend a foray into the Hugh Grant 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:15.040 personal life Wikipedia. It is unbelievable. Caitlin, Also, I am 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.600 as devoted to the Paddington universe as you are. Maybe 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.320 not as devoted because you're the queen of it. Thank 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.880 you so much, But in that way, I'm a huge girl. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.720 But now that I didn't know that about Colin auditioning 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.439 for Paddington's voice. Yeah. He in fact, not only did 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.200 he audition, I think they recorded basically all of Paddington's 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.520 dialogue until they like realized it just wasn't going to 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.720 really work out with just the way his voice sounded 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.840 was going to be too confusing. To Jamie, this is sorry. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.880 I meantime, I was like, I'm going to let the 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.960 girls talk about Paddington's I'm in Hugh Grant's personal life 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:55.760 section on Wikipedia, and it is so long. I will 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.600 summarize it for you that basically he had these two 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.199 wives or or like intense relationships where he basically flip 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.000 flopped between them and would have a baby with one 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:08.679 and then a baby with the other, and then to 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:13.120 marry the one, and it's unbelievable. It's too much to 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.600 fully get into here, but I highly recommend that. Also, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.199 his name is Hugh John Mungo Grant. His second middle 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.319 name is Mungo, which is very British to me, very 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.840 oh yeah, like Mungo Jerry from Cats. That was exactly 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:32.920 what I thought it. Why aren't Colin Firth and Hugh 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.920 Grant in the movie Cats huge missed opportunity? If you 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.199 ask me, they would be like unique, I mean, everyone's 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.560 bad in that movie, but they would be like uniquely 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.679 bad in a way that would be really fun. I 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.360 feel like Hugh gret could probably almost pull it off. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.160 Colin Firth, I don't know. I don't know, he might. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.880 He would be like Pierce Browsnan trying to sing in 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.520 Mamma Mia. Pierce Brosny is iconic in Mamma Mia because 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.280 I feel like Pierce Browsney knows in Mamma Mia that 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.440 he cannot haul a note, but he's just like karaoke 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.280 committing it at twelve. It's amazing how many of those 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.920 movies have you guys done. We've just done the first one. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.640 Although I feel like there's now that I've seen Mamma Mia, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.160 here we go again. I feel like there is a 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.480 fair amount of discourse at Yeah, and we love to 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.720 cover a share a movie always always a bonus and 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:30.200 it's the superior Mama me a movie because Fernando is present, true, true, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.040 thank you. Anyway, should we talk about the actual movie 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.360 Bridget Jones Diary? Yes? Sorry, Caitlin, what is your history 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.080 with Bridget Um? I saw it like right after it 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.040 came out, which was late or no, I guess mid 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.880 two one. The only thing I remembered about the actual 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:53.600 like plot of the movie was the end when Colin 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.800 Firth sees the diary, sees all the like stuff she 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.199 wrote in it about how she hates him, and then 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.240 he leaves. Then he's like, just kidding, I went out 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.200 to buy you a new diary. And that's the only 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.800 thing I remembered. Isn't that the first time we see 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.360 the diary? Um, I think you see like little glimpses 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.640 of it throughout. But I felt like at the very 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.280 end of the movie is the first time she sits 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.920 down and like writes it her diary. It's called Bridget Jones, right, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.120 I feel like we get most of the diary is 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:33.400 like a d R voiceover. Yeah, sorry, what am I? 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.240 I'm fired from Hollywood? I have no no a d 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.520 R far the more technical term. Also, we are recording 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.679 at one PM. But I did pour some Pino griggio 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.720 into a cup because I'm like, we're talking about Bridget Jones. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.240 It's one pm on a Monday, and yet here we are. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.920 You know, we've been in quarantine. Wait. One more thing 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.920 I learned in the trivia online was that British people 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:02.480 blamed they blamed Bridget Jones sales of chardonnay going down. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.800 Whoa because she was like this sad Zack who, Well, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.240 we need to get into this because quote unquote sad 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.480 Zack who like chardinary and then the sales went down 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.679 in the years after the movie came out. That's really funny. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.400 And also I don't know, like I know that movies 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.719 influids sales, but I feel like usually it's an overstatement 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.160 where they're like et saved Reese's pieces, and like, first 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.760 of all, I don't care, and second of all, it 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.400 sounds like an overstatement. Um, Bridget, It's just like how 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.520 millennials are killing the diamond industry, like Bridget Jones is 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.080 killing the chardonnay industry. It was like, leave her alone. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.080 My whole thing with this movie is leave Bridget Jones alone. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.640 Um My, um, what's your history? My history is I 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.040 think pretty close to Amy's. Like I think I've seen 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.600 this movie, but also I'm not totally sure that I've 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.200 seen this movie. I definitely cultural osmosis, I knew what happen, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.319 but I also like going in, I'm like, I don't 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.200 remember if she ends up with anyone at the end. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.719 I don't remember kind of where it. I don't I'm 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.959 not sure, but I know that I've taken a lot 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.040 of Bridget genes and through cultural osmosis, and I have 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:17.280 a lot more complicated thoughts on the movie and like 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.000 the property in general than I thought I was, So 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.680 I'm excited to talk about it. Yeah, well let's do that, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:30.080 shall we. Okay, So here's the recap. Bridget Jones, who, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:34.720 of course is Renee's Salwager, who is not British, but 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.560 she does. And I'm no expert by any means, but 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.880 I think she does a convincing enough English accent that 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.760 I was like, wait a minute, is Renee Sellwager one 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.880 of those like British actors who just always gets cast 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.720 in American roles And I just didn't know this about her, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.400 and I like looked it up and she is, in 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.200 fact American, but I was like, doing a pretty good job. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.400 I guess people were really mad when she got cast 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.400 because it was such an iconic British gal from the books, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.840 but then people had to admit she really pulled it off, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.400 actually got nominated for an Oscar. I know, it's so 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.080 bizarre that we're so cool with British actors doing American accents, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.160 but it's the second American actor as a British accent. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.080 Were like, that is unbelievable. It's like, no offense, England, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:27.560 we have more actors, our country is bigger, so make 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.480 space for random American white girls doing British accents that 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.240 are pretty convincing. I thought, yeah, I was Genuinely I 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.320 assumed the same thing Kalin, that she was British but 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.160 played American often, just like I mean, god, I feel 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:48.360 like every popular American actress is secretly Australian. So like 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.520 whatever I thought it was, really I was really impressed. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.960 And then I looked up on that horrible website Cora 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.640 dot com, where it's like basically Yahoo answers too, and 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.840 I was like, do people like Renee Zellwigger's accent and 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.360 Britet Jones And generally yes, some some British people say 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.840 that it's a bit too posh for a middle class person, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.360 but then the others will excuse the fact that she's 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.200 clearly trying to like change, She's trying to, like, you know, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.520 impress people and act wealthier than she is, so maybe 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.960 a sense right, she's giving such a nuanced performance. Why 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.520 didn't she get the oscar for bridget Jobs read that 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.400 she also did the accent between takes, like, just on, 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.480 since you stayed in character, which I have mixed feelings about. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.400 Really well, just I totally respect it to stay into it. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.080 I think that makes a lot of sense. But when 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.080 you are on a set and someone's doing that, it's like, Okay, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.080 let's just talk normally. You know. I, well, I guess 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.720 putting myself in her shoes, I'd be so afraid that 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.920 I would lose it. Advice stop, that's my thing. I'd 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.600 be like, I have to stay in it. What if 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.440 it goes away? I also love when women even go 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.520 two percent method, because men get away with the weirdest 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.639 ship totally, and then the second of woman does something weird, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:13.800 they're like, she's difficult. On Barry, we we have all 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.600 those guys who play the Chechens, and they were kind 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.720 of during the pilot deciding like, are we going to 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.600 stay in this accent between scenes? And Bill Hayter was 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:29.240 kind of like, no, but that's also like it's pretty. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.800 They're doing a pretty you know, no ho Hank is 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.439 a pretty goofy character, so it's it's a lot, but 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.720 yeah he's a but yeah, I respect Renee for staying 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.040 in it. For sure. I would be afraid that Hugh 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.040 Grant would make fun of me. He seems like the 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.520 type that would be like, okay, knock it off, but 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:52.080 yeah respect um okay. So Bridget Jones has been single 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.240 for thirty two years, which I guess is the movie's 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.479 way of saying that she's thirty two years old. Yes, well, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:04.080 when you're a maybe you are a single. It's true 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.639 her mom or her mom is always trying to set 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.960 her up with someone, and this year, at a holiday party, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.040 her mother tries to set her up with Mark Darcy 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:22.160 that's Colin Firth and uh, she's actually interested in him, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.480 but he is not interested in her, and she overhears 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.040 him saying some very mean things about her, and she 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.200 realizes that if she doesn't make some changes soon, she's 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.639 gonna be alone forever or end up like Glenn Close 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.640 in Fatal Attraction, which I love I have a whole 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.760 but like I love that you see Bridget Jones like 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.359 part of her insecurity is stemming from the media she's consuming, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:53.040 Like if only she could have listened to the bed plcast. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.840 I know, especially because in our episode on Fatal Attraction 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:02.080 we talk about what a like societal and cultural impact 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.680 that movie had, and like everyone who saw it was like, 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.760 oh my gosh, women are so unstable and they're gonna 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:13.040 kill me. I very rarely see like a had her 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.000 own woman on screen and be like I could save her. 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.919 But that's how I feel about Bridget Jones. I was like, 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.240 I wish we could just hang out with her and 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.359 her friends twenty years ago, right. Um. So then in 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:31.480 her diary, which she is in theory writing in throughout 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.080 the movie, which we mostly get through like her voiceover narration, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.760 she makes a list of what she wants to accomplish, 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.520 which is to lose weight, to find a nice boyfriend, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:47.320 and to stop fantasizing about her boss, Daniel Cleaver and 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.840 that is Hugh Grant. And then so we see her 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.320 at work she has a job in publishing. We also 0:19:54.440 --> 0:20:00.040 meet her friends. Jude Shahza is that her name? I 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:06.080 guess I was curious about Shaw's question mark. She seemed fun, 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.760 but she only but she only shows up to say fuck. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:13.639 So she says fun fun fun funck um and then 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:18.520 Tom that's like their friend group. So then Bridget starts 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.200 flirting with Daniel at work, and by that I mean 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:28.800 her boss begins to sexually harass her in the workplace email. Yeah. 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:33.080 I was like, wow, MSN email representation. My mom feels 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:37.280 so seen right now. Um. I mean there's so much 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.680 bushemy test in this movie of like, if Steve Bushemy 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.240 is your boss sending this email? Um, are we okay 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:48.280 with it? No? We're not. Seriously ah So, then the 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.320 following night is this big launch event for their publishing 0:20:52.359 --> 0:21:00.680 company's new book, Kafka's Motorbike. Any Funny, Any funny? Um? 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.400 And she's like, Okay, I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.320 be fabulous, but I'm going to ignore Daniel because she's 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:10.399 playing hard to get. And then who shows up to 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:15.240 this event but Mark Darcy and also the real Salomon 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:23.480 Rushdie playing I did not realize that. That's why I 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.880 like it. It's pretty amazing. There's also I guess in 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.520 that scene there's there's like a whole pride and prejudice 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.600 thing that we can talk about in a bit about this, 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:37.160 But I guess that Helen Fielding, who are like is 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.560 Bridget Jones and wrote Bridget Jones really loved the Pride 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.919 and Prejudice mini series that starred Colin Firth, and I 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.760 guess whoever the other guy in that series is appears 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.479 in the movie in a small role at several times, 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.159 and she was like just a huge Pride and Prejudice 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.200 mini series stand. So they're all over the place. It's 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.640 all connected. The real Id and Prejudice heads love that 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.840 mini series. Yeah, that's they're big, like over the movies 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.000 or any adaptation. That's their thing. I should watch it. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.440 Sometimes I'm like, I'm a basic. I've seen the Kia 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.359 Knightley one and I'm like cool and then I was 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.119 strapped to a table and forced to read it in 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:22.560 ninth grade. But other than that, well, isn't isn't Hugh 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:27.680 Grant in Sense and Sensibility like the other big Austin 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:32.199 like major motion picture adaptation. Oh, Gemma, Gemma Jones is 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:36.520 also in it? Who plays bridgets mom? Yeah, there's like 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:39.880 so much did sentence? Yeah, sentence Sensibility would have come 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.320 out before this. Yeah. I think I'm pretty sure that 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:47.520 Helen Fielding like was really deliberately being like anyone who's 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:51.320 been in a Jane Austen adaptation. Free for all welcome. 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:53.920 It is more of a I mean, we can get 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:56.560 into this, but it's more of a like there's slight 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:00.239 homages to pride prejudice, it's not really that, it's not 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:02.440 I don't know, I don't find that it's really based 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.800 on it. Yeah. Besides, there's a character named Darcy and 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:08.720 blah blah blah. Yeah. I read like the list of 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.880 like direct references, but they are all kind of more 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:18.639 like homage e than actual plot like adaptation. Yeah. Anyway, 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.040 so Mark Darcy is at this book event and you 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.160 can tell that he's like, hm, wait a minute, maybe 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:28.120 there is something to this Bridget Jones. But then Hugh 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.399 Grant swoops in and takes her out to dinner, and 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:36.080 it turns out that he and Colin Firth used to 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.359 be good friends. Sorry, I am going to switch between 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.120 their character names and the actor's names. Um I will, 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:46.879 it won't help. But it turns out that used to 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:52.600 be good friends until according to Daniel A K. Hugh 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:57.640 Grant Mark a K. Colin Firth had an affair with 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:05.119 Daniel Cleaver's fiance. Then Bridget and Daniel kiss, they have sex, 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.480 they become an item. Um, but then he starts to 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:12.640 get a bit dodgy and he has to bail on 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.159 this like family friends party that they were supposed to 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:17.760 go to. But you'll never guess who is at the 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:25.800 party who. It's Mark Darcy and he's also we've seen 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:29.720 him with this woman, Natasha, who is a colleague of his. 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:34.040 They're both lawyers or barristers, which I guess is a lawyer. 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:36.440 I don't, I don't, I don't know. Such a good word. 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:38.920 It's really good. And then when you find out whether 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:44.600