Colin Firth on the Long Process to the Big Screen for 'Bridget Jones's Baby'
Colin Firth is set to star in the upcoming sequel, Bridget Jones's Baby, which has been a long time coming. "If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one."
Firth told Collider that "it went through so many stages," not even able to recall the dates of when the film was supposedly happening a number of years ago.
"It even went into production, and then it didn’t happen, for all kinds of reasons, many of which I can’t remember. I’ve spoken to at least three potential directors. I had conversations with (book author) Helen Fielding, quite a number of years ago, about what a third film might look like, long before she wrote her third book.
He'd resigned to the fact that the film wasn't happening. "But Working Title and (producer) Eric Fellner had this determination to find the story, and then a momentum kicked in. I really, really, really wanted to see Renée [Zellweger] in this role again. I think that’s how we all felt. That was motivation and incentive, in itself. And Emma Thompson getting involved, as a writer, was a key moment. I think that took it forward.
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Suddenly, there was a momentum and many of the key people wanted to come back. There seemed to be more of an appetite for this film than there had been. Ten years ago, there was probably a little bit of skepticism about this, as a franchise and as a sequel, just because there generally is about sequels.
"But, the fact that so much time has passed has added a layer of interest. In fact, I remember saying, back around the time of the second film, “I think maybe it would be far more interesting to see what these people are like at a difference age, and maybe see what the years have done to them.”
"What’s interesting, and it didn’t quite fully occur to me until now, is that what adds resonance to that is that the audience have aged, inevitably, with us. It doesn’t mean they’re all old, but everyone has 15 years in common since the first one."
The new film is out now.
Source: Collider
