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Renee Zellweger defends age-gap relationship in Bridget Jones: ‘It’s nothing new’

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Sarah Marshal
Sarah Marshalhttps://dailyobserver.uk
Accomplished Lifestyle/Fashion Editor with 10 years industry experience. Highly skilled in market research and trend forecasting. Continually provide content to magazine blog and website maintaining an active online presence. A travel enthusiasts by nature. When she is not writing she is either in her favorite coffee shop or traveling exploring new places. Sarah spends most of her time reading, cooking, traveling the world, visiting Walt Disney World, and catching her favorite Broadway shows

The Daily Observer London Desk: Reporter- Sarah Marshal

Renée Zellweger has defended her titular character’s relationship with a younger man in the new Bridget Jones film as “nothing new” and said this onscreen trend could mean “social taboos are melting away”.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, based on columnist Helen Fielding’s 2013 book, sees Bridget Jones navigate “life as a widow and single mom with the help of her family, friends, and former lover Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she is pursued by a younger man, and maybe – just maybe – her son’s science teacher”.

The film sees Zellweger reprising her role as the titular Bridget Jones and Hugh Grant returning as Daniel Cleaver.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays her son’s science teacher, and Leo Woodall are in the film as love interests for Bridget.

Speaking at the movie’s London premiere, Zellweger spoke about the age gap between her 51-year-old Bridget and Woodall’s 29-year-old Roxster.

“I mean, I think it’s nothing new,” she told Variety. “But maybe the social taboos are melting away… it’s never a bad thing. There’s certain things that we probably don’t need to have opinions about, and where people find love… why would that ever be a problem?”

Woodall echoed Zellweger, saying it was important to “get people used to it”. “It’s a real relationship that happens a lot and you know, we’re just not used to seeing it on screen.”

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy directed by Michael Morris (Universal Studios)

For fans upset that Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth in the previous three films, is no more, Zellweger said working with her two new leading men, Ejiofor and Woodall, made her feel like she was “spoiled for riches”.

“That’s not a bad day at work right there. Talented, wonderful fellas,” she said.

The conversation around Bridget’s relationship with Roxster comes months after the release of Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman as Romy Mathis, a female CEO in her fifties who has an affair with a younger male intern.

Sarah Marshal
Sarah Marshalhttps://dailyobserver.uk
Accomplished Lifestyle/Fashion Editor with 10 years industry experience. Highly skilled in market research and trend forecasting. Continually provide content to magazine blog and website maintaining an active online presence. A travel enthusiasts by nature. When she is not writing she is either in her favorite coffee shop or traveling exploring new places. Sarah spends most of her time reading, cooking, traveling the world, visiting Walt Disney World, and catching her favorite Broadway shows

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Sarah Marshal
Sarah Marshalhttps://dailyobserver.uk
Accomplished Lifestyle/Fashion Editor with 10 years industry experience. Highly skilled in market research and trend forecasting. Continually provide content to magazine blog and website maintaining an active online presence. A travel enthusiasts by nature. When she is not writing she is either in her favorite coffee shop or traveling exploring new places. Sarah spends most of her time reading, cooking, traveling the world, visiting Walt Disney World, and catching her favorite Broadway shows