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It’s Honestly Really Nice to Get Older With Bridget Jones
In Mad About the Boy, Renée Zellweger’s chaotic singleton has finally learned to love herself.
When Renée Zellweger first played Helen Fielding’s chaotic singleton in 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, the character was fretting about being a “tragic spinster” at 32, an age in which plenty of Brooklynites are still living with multiple roommates and wondering if they can afford to spring for health insurance. She married dashing if emotionally constipated human rights attorney Mark, with whom she has two children, son Billy (Casper Knopf) and daughter Mabel (Mila Jankovic), as well as an adorable row house in North London. He’s solicitous, great in bed, and gorgeous — one of the movie’s highlights is a tribute to Colin Firth’s Pride and Prejudice pond scene, though its version takes place at a birthday party, and is as much about confirming Bridget’s desirability to her friend group as it is giving everyone something to gawk at.
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