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Speaker 1: Great per flick with BENO.

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Speaker 2: Morning Ben, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Here they go again.

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Speaker 2: Where do we stand on Bridget Jones in here?

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Speaker 1: I said earlier, obviously I read the book.

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Speaker 3: Loved it, you know, way back when, and I had

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Speaker 3: a real problem with them casting an American in a

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Speaker 3: absolutely quintessent.

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Speaker 1: UK counting calories, not killer jewels. Everything is different.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't be more British than Bridges British, And.

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Speaker 1: I said, It's never been anything against Renees Elweger. I

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Speaker 1: just couldn't get past them casting an American, and I

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Speaker 1: was never able to see any of the movies as

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Speaker 1: a result.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look I definitely empathized with that, and I

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Speaker 2: too thought it was very strange casting, and especially when

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Speaker 2: you look at some of the other actresses who were

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Speaker 2: in the mix to play her, Kate Winslet, Kate when

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Speaker 2: that was too young, so they knocked her back, Helena Bonham, Carter,

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Speaker 2: Rachel Weiss they thought was too beautiful. Even even Kate

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Speaker 2: Blanchette was in the mix, and so that, but they

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Speaker 2: didn't cast any actual British people or Kate Blanchette and

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Speaker 2: instead went for Renee Zellweger, who had kind of done

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Speaker 2: Jerry maguire. She was kind of on the trajectory to

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Speaker 2: becoming a Hollywood superstar. She's from Texas, not very British,

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Speaker 2: but the people, you know, I'm sure that the thinking

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Speaker 2: from the working title, people who you know behind pretty

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Speaker 2: much every great British wrong coom was that we want

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Speaker 2: this film to have international appeal. The book is an

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Speaker 2: international best seller, so we need a Hollywood Starfational appeal

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Speaker 2: is the best seller. I know, I know, but regardless, regardless,

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Speaker 2: they probably they probably felt that they were vindicated with

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Speaker 2: the success of the first movie, Bridget Jones's Diary in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and one. He was a huge hit made

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Speaker 2: but I don't know, three hundred million bucks, and Renee

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Speaker 2: Zellweger of course got an Oscar nomination for it, the

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Speaker 2: first of her Oscar nominations. The next film came out

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Speaker 2: a couple of years later, The Edge of Reason. It

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Speaker 2: was not so great. And then many many years later,

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Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, they came out with a third film,

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Speaker 2: Bridget Jones as Baby. That was probably the worst of

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Speaker 2: the lot. That was the one where we thought, oh,

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Speaker 2: as this franchise jumped the shark. Yeah, it had jump

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Speaker 2: the Kipp.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the worst thing about that film was Hugh

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Speaker 2: Grant's character, Daniel Cleaver, who's a bit of a cad

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Speaker 2: but a lovable rogue. We all love him. He sort

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Speaker 2: of dies, He apparently dies in a plane crash or

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Speaker 2: something at the start of the film and then he's

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Speaker 2: not in it. So that's, you know, and so that's

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Speaker 2: really of a disappointment for the fans because this film

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Speaker 2: is really about that kind of that triangle between you know,

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Speaker 2: Bridget Jones and Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darson played by

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Speaker 2: Colin Firth and where it always was. And for people

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Speaker 2: who don't know, Helen Fielding wrote the book, but it

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Speaker 2: was based on her newspaper column, and Bridget Jones was

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Speaker 2: this fictitious car that was based on her own real

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Speaker 2: life friends. A way before Sex and the City. It

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Speaker 2: was the real life Sex and the City and Bridget

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Speaker 2: Jones was designed to kind of lampoon British society and

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Speaker 2: culture and conventions, which is why.

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Speaker 1: Everybody loves being a woman exactly in society.

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Speaker 2: Uh. And it was absolutely brilliant at doing that, and

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Speaker 2: then to turn it into a novel, she channeled pride

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Speaker 2: and prejudice by Jane Austen Mister Darcy in both a

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Speaker 2: lot of similarities blokes climbing out of bodies of water

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Speaker 2: and so and so that's kind of, you know, again,

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Speaker 2: very very British.

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Speaker 1: And do you go for the bad boy or the

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Speaker 1: mister Darcy?

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Speaker 2: Totally? Totally and it a sort of a strong female

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Speaker 2: character who's trying to find her way in the world.

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Speaker 2: And the way Bridget Jones does that like she's a

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Speaker 2: bit of a mess. She does like she's not perfect.

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Speaker 2: She embraces swears like character and wears comfortable underwear yes

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Speaker 2: at the time. And but and that's why she became

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Speaker 2: such a beloved character. And so I got the chance

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Speaker 2: to go over to Sydney on Monday and meet Renee

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Speaker 2: cast in the film. And you know what, she's not

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Speaker 2: really like Bridget Jones in real life. She's probably more

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Speaker 2: like her character and Jerry maguire very very sweet, like

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Speaker 2: super super sweet. But she always seems like she's perpetually surprised.

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Speaker 2: You know, she's got that sort of look on her face.

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Speaker 2: You ask her a question, she's like, oh many of them, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but she but she but she was very sweet and

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Speaker 2: also I met her co stars in this film who

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Speaker 2: the New kind of Love Triangle? She would tel e

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Speaker 2: g Four from twelve Years a Slave. He was also

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Speaker 2: famously Peter in Love Actually he married Kieran Knightley and

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Speaker 2: then have his best mate Rock up on his door

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Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve holding up the signs saying that I'm

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Speaker 2: secretly in love with you. One I said she would

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Speaker 2: tell you know, looking back at that scene in Love

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Speaker 2: Actually it's a bit creepy, isn't it. And he goes, oh,

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that. I told them on the day.

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Speaker 2: Isn't this a bit creepy? And they're like, no, no,

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Speaker 2: it'll be cute. And I was like, not for Peter, no, no.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, So it hasn't aged well as for this film,

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Speaker 2: Bridget Jones mad about the boy. You might be thinking

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Speaker 2: about the last one. Gosh, is there any steam left

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Speaker 2: in this franchise? Please to report it's probably the best

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Speaker 2: one since the first movie. I don't think there's really

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Speaker 2: much argument about that. So she we find Bridget mourning

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Speaker 2: the loss of Mark Darcy, Colin Firth's character. He died

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Speaker 2: four years before the events of the film on a

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Speaker 2: humanitarian mission in the Sudan, which is Mark Darcy kind

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Speaker 2: of thing to do. And so she's left raising her

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Speaker 2: two kids, taking it to primary school, and you know,

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Speaker 2: really kind of in a bit of a no man's

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Speaker 2: land with her life. It's not going anywhere. All of

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Speaker 2: her friends, including her colleges played by Emma Thompson, who's amazing,

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Speaker 2: convinces her to kind of come back to the land

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Speaker 2: of the living, go back to work as a TV producer,

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Speaker 2: start dating again, even though now she's you know, in

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Speaker 2: her forties and sort of firing up Tinder for the

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Speaker 2: first time in her life and finding it a very

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Speaker 2: different kind of environment than it was, you know when

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Speaker 2: she was you know dating, you know, Hugh grand and

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Speaker 2: Colin Firth in the first movie, and so she ends

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Speaker 2: up kind of involved with these two men, one of

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Speaker 2: them much younger, a local park ranger played by Leo

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Speaker 2: Woodle from White Lotus Loads and so he's like in

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Speaker 2: his mid twenties, dashingly handsome, very very young. So there's

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Speaker 2: some age gap stuff there, which is quite funny. And

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Speaker 2: then you've got chuwatel Ideafour who plays mister Wallaker, the

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Speaker 2: science teacher from her kids' school, you know, straight laced,

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Speaker 2: no nonsense kind of guy who is the opposite to

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Speaker 2: Bridget Jones's kind of flights of fancy and romantic love

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Speaker 2: and all this kind of stuff. So you know, maybe

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Speaker 2: opposite's a track there. I don't know, you'll have to

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Speaker 2: watch it see. But you've got a lot of a

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Speaker 2: lot of setups there for Bridget to embarrass herself and

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Speaker 2: then kind of maybe learn something about herself along the way.

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Speaker 2: And I think this film, this film, like the first one,

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Speaker 2: feels more genuine and grounded in reality. The last two

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Speaker 2: kind of got a bit silly. Yeah, And this one,

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Speaker 2: I think is another film where people will watch this.

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Speaker 2: And and who followed Bridget Jones throughout her journey and go,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I relate to this as well. I'm

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Speaker 2: at the kind of similar stage of life. And things

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Speaker 2: do change as you get older, not always for the better,

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Speaker 2: but you have to learn to embrace the mess. And

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Speaker 2: and and as Bridget would say, keep buggering on, negotiate

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Speaker 2: it best you can, except you might drop a few

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Speaker 2: f bombs in before.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, how many it should have been? Kate

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Speaker 1: Winslet's Nonetheless, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Going to give it a very solid three stars. It's

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Speaker 2: had more sold more pre Stle tickets than Barbie. In

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Speaker 2: the all the Best lines, he's back from the dead.

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Speaker 2: Some of the jokes are really close to the oh

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Speaker 2: my goodness, but yeah, but Hugh Grand watch it for him,

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Speaker 2: good Valentine's Day. A lot has changed since twenty sixteen, guys,