Self-proclaimed ‘grumpy’ Hugh Grant cried reading ‘Bridget Jones 4’
nypost.comHugh Grant is taking a page out of the official rom-com diary.The 64-year-old, who is reprising his role as Daniel Cleaver in the fourth “Bridget Jones” flick, revealed that he shed some tears while reading the script for “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.”“I loved the script — it made me cry,” Grant told Vanity Fair Wednesday, “and I wanted to help with this one.”“But really there’s no part for Daniel Cleaver in it at all,” he added. “They wanted him in it, and in the end, they’d done something I wasn’t crazy about.”Grant “wrote some scenes” that director Michael Morris approved and placed into the plot.
The “Love Actually” actor then signed on to star alongside Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emma Thompson and Leo Woodall, Bridget’s newest rumored love interest.“There are people in my life who have always said, ‘Oh, that’s much more like the real Hugh,’” Grant said of Daniel, who ended up seducing Bridget with his devilish charm in the first two films.
The star did turn down an offer to appear in the third project in the series, 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby.”As for why Grant opted out?
As he told the outlet, “I really couldn’t fit my character in — he just didn’t belong, so I stepped aside.”But Grant, who once called himself a “grumpy old man,” was more than happy to join for “Mad About the Boy.”“It’s absolutely the best [“Bridget Jones” book], and I think it’s very funny and very, very moving,” he admitted. “I’m not in a lot, I did a week’s work, that’s it. … But when you see the film, you’ll be very moved.”The film’s poster was unveiled in August with the tagline: “New decade.
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