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Renée Zellweger: Bridget Jones characters would be in trouble today over work romance


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The workplace romance shown in Bridget Jones’s Diary would not withstand modern-day scrutiny from human resources, Renée Zellweger has said. To research the role, Zellweger said she worked at the publisher Picador for two months, flying under the radar as “Bridget Cavendish” as she filed newspaper clippings, including articles about herself. After its release more than two decades ago, the first film in the Bridget Jones series, an adaptation of Helen Fielding’s bestseller, banked a then record £7.8m in three days.

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