Years & Years share ‘Meteorite’, taken from the new Bridget Jones film

In comparison, Bridget Jones’s Diary was met with 66 from Metacritic and 81 per cent from Rotten Tomatoes, while interquel Edge of Reason accrued 44 and 27 per cent respectively.

And catch Bridget Jones’s Baby out on September 16.

The iconic role of Bridget herself marks one of Renee’s first after a six year break from acting, alongside her upcoming thriller The Whole Truth, with Keanu Reeves.

Those who found the original incarnation of the ditsy and dithering Bridget in Fielding’s newspaper column tiresome (however much she defined the zeitgeist, or however brilliantly it spoofed feminism and the media) will love this version of her – happy in her skin, and played again with winning luminosity by Renée Zellweger. “And that Patrick Dempsey’s no schlub, either”. She focuses on her career as a top news producer.

She also welcomed Patrick Dempsey, who plays Jack Qwant, with open arms.

“The trouble is that I am under sentence of death”, he joked, referring to how Darcy was killed off aged 51 by Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding in her last book “Mad About the Boy”. The latter character sweeps Bridget off her feet but soon complicates matters after realizing she is pregnant. She learned to speak by listening to others, and she worked with a dialect coach.

Her signature blonde locks were tied back in a ponytail as she wore the first few strands of her locks down in a middle-part.

“I visited the midwife, and she was explaining the different stages of pregnancy”.