Bridget’s obsession with losing weight will be “revived” in the film after protests that she could be a bad influence.
She starts practicing Zumba, and since she’s a healthy size 10, she won’t panic about gaining a pound or two like she has before.
“We’ll reflect more on what people think about body image these days,” said a source involved in the film.
“Letting go of Bridget’s weight obsession is seen as the right thing to do.”
It is believed to be the first time Renee Zellweger has not gained weight for the role.
Bridget’s obsession with losing weight will be “revived” in the film after protests that she could be a bad influence (pictured: Renee Zellweger as Bridget in Bridget Jones’s Diary)
The central premise of Bridget Jones’s Diary, the first film in the series, is that Bridget Jones is fat, and Renee Zellweger made headlines for taking just over second place to play the character (pictured: Zellweger in The Diary by Bridget Jones in 2001).
Meanwhile, in the second installment, we saw even more of Bridget’s concern about her weight, which was explicitly tied to her search for a partner.
Bridget was routinely embarrassed in both the original Helen Fielding books and the first film, despite weighing just over 61kg, the same size as the average British woman at the time.
Zellweger gained weight twice to play the size 12 heroine, once in 2001 for Bridget Jones’s Diary and again in 2004 for the sequel Edge of Reason, before her character reached her “ideal weight” in the third. movie, albeit briefly before getting pregnant.
The central premise of Bridget Jones’s Diary, the first film in the series, is that Bridget is fat, and Zellweger made headlines for gaining just over five pounds to play the character.
The actress admitted to having difficulty gaining weight for the role and was reported to be on a 4,000-calorie-a-day diet to reach the goal quickly.
He told the New York Times: “I would have for breakfast an omelet with cheese and sauce with a fatty yogurt and then a fruit salad with dressing, juice, coffee and cream and a bagel with butter and a few hours later a chocolate.” shake it with powder to gain weight.
Meanwhile, in the second installment, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, we saw even more of Bridget’s concern about her weight, which was explicitly linked to her search for a partner.
After hearing love interest Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth, insult her to her mother in the second film, she says of herself: “And that was it.” Just there. Right there was the moment.
“I suddenly realized that, unless something changed soon, I was going to live a life in which my main relationship was a bottle of wine and eventually I would die fat and alone and three weeks later I would be found eaten by Alsatians or I was about to die.” Become Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
Renee Zellweger repeated the weight gain process to play Bridget in the second film, after losing the two kilos she had gained after the first film.
Speaking to Closer magazine at the time, he said: “It would be silly if Bridget was talking about her chubby thighs and they weren’t.”
In 2016, Zellweger revealed that while she wanted to gain weight for the third film, the directors rejected the idea.
She explained that the writers wanted Bridget Jones’s Baby to show that her on-screen character had “reached her ideal weight.”
The actress admitted to having difficulty gaining weight for the role and was reported to be following a 4,000-calorie-a-day diet to reach the goal quickly.
Renée Zellweger repeated the weight gain process to play Bridget, after losing the two kilos she had gained after the first film.
In 2016, Zellweger revealed that while she wanted to gain weight for the third film, the directors rejected the idea.
She explained that the writers wanted Bridget Jones’s Baby to show that her on-screen character had “reached her ideal weight.”
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Renee revealed: “Sharon hoped we could show that Bridget had reached her ideal weight, but at the same time that didn’t mean her life was perfect.
“I wasn’t sure about that because we all have something that we think is wrong, that needs to be fixed, that in our minds represents the ideal that we should obtain.” And I like the idea of that staying with us throughout our lives.”
During an interview with British Vogue, Renee explained that her character in the third film was a “perfectly normal weight.”