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‘Bridget Jones’ Author Helen Fielding on Bringing ‘Mad About the Boy’ to the Big Screen and Defying Stereotypes About Women Dating Younger Men: ‘Bridget Isn’t Anyone’s Old Bat’
'Bridget Jones' author Helen Fielding on new film 'Mad About the Boy,' breaking the taboo of women dating younger and if it's truly the last chapter.
The night the third “ Bridget Jones ” novel, “Mad About the Boy,” came out in October 2013, author Helen Fielding was taking a walk in London when she passed her local pub and was accosted by a tipsy patron. As a result, “Mad About the Boy” — the long-gestating film version of which debuts on Peacock in the U.S. Thursday and in U.K. cinemas Friday — explores Bridget’s struggles reentering the dating world as a widow with two small children. Below, Fielding tells Variety more about adapting “Mad About the Boy” for screen, casting Woodall and Ejiofor, getting Grant back on board, breaking the taboo of women dating younger men and if it’s truly the last “Bridget Jones” chapter.
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