Renée Zellweger Reveals New Details About ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby,’ and They

The Bridget Jones’s Baby actress, who is joined by her castmates on EW’s cover, also dished on the highly anticipated third film in the popular Bridget Jones’s Diary franchise.

Renee Zellweger says she looks different because she’s ‘living a different, happy, more fulfilling life.’ The 45-year-old Oscar victor issued a statement to People magazine in 2014. “I love this character, I like that she tells stories about what it’s like to be a woman and these really relatable situations at certain times in life”.

Firth returns to the role of Mark Darcy in the film, as does Renée Zellweger’s Bridget.

She has told Entertainment Weekly she handled the scrutiny by ignoring it and admitted the experience in some ways had changed her.

Following her win, the actress reprised her role in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and starred in the critically praised Cinderella Man (2005) and Miss Potter (2006). Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) will not be part of the film.

Universal Pictures and Working Title (via Entertainment Weekly) have just revealed Bridget Jones’s Baby cast photos, which you can check out in the gallery below!

“She’s a bit more mature and has moved on, as we all have”.

“I think that’s her essence, really”, she said of her character’s propensity for interpersonal chaos. “All of us do things in our personalities that we don’t outgrow”, the actress said, per People. Helen Fielding, the brilliant brain behind the first two Bridget books, was somehow convinced (with money) to pen a third book in 2013, a book in which Mark Darcy was DEAD (!!!) (I’m still not over this) and Bridget was forced to raise her two children on her OWN (!!!).

Was the movie based on Fielding’s third Bridget Jones novel, Mad About the Boy?

The new love interest is former Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey who plays a billionaire called Mark Qwant.

The film is slated for a 22 April 2016 release in the United Kingdom, with a U.S. release date scheduled for 16 September 2016.