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Leo Woodall on Being Bridget Jones’ New Man in ‘Mad About the Boy,’ Adjusting to Fame and Wanting More Action Roles: ‘I’d Do Bond’
Leo Woodall talks being Bridget Jones' love interest in 'Mad About the Boy,' adjusting to life in the spotlight and if he'd take on James Bond.
On the big screen 24 years ago, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” cemented Colin Firth’s sex appeal as human rights lawyer Mark Darcy and made us swoon for Hugh Grant all over again as roguish book publisher Daniel Cleaver. Woodall knows his way around heartthrob status, turning heads on the second season of “The White Lotus” as a cheeky con man with a surprising relationship to his “uncle,” then breaking hearts as a playboy-turned-romantic in Netflix’s “One Day.” The combination made him an instant “It” boy — so much so that he was offered the part as Bridget’s much younger squeeze without even doing a read with Zellweger. Despite our interview taking place at the tail end of a long day, he’s ever the charmer, convincing himself he remembers me from the red carpet a few nights prior (“I knew I recognized you!”) and reaching to grab my hand after his misinterpretation of a question leaves us giggling.
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