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Hugh Grant pokes fun at Bridget Jones casting 'poor' Colin Firth in sequels: 'They're still wheeling him out'

Hugh Grant poked fun at 'Bridget Jones's Diary' continuing to cast 'old boy' Colin Firth in the movie's sequels: 'They're still wheeling him out.'

Over the past 20 years, Grant's Daniel Cleaver and Firth's Mark Darcy have been engaged in a bitter battle to win over the affections of Renée Zellweger's iconic journalist in the Bridget Jones films. That includes just last week, when Grant revealed in a Vanity Fair interview that his idea of perfect happiness was having a front-row seat to Firth's downfall. When asked to visualize the moment, he teased, "Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe."

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