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The first trailer for rom-com sequel Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is finally here, and it promises more love life-related chaos for the diary-writing dreamer.
The promo opens with Renée Zellweger’s Bridget meeting up with Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy pre-dinner party. The loved-up pair grin at one another as they shimmer up to someone’s home, as a voiceover tells us: “There are memories that will never leave us, but sometimes, those memories are suddenly all we’re left with.”
Fortunately, the rest is a lot lighter, as we see Bridge signing up to Tinder, flirting with her daughter’s teacher, Mr. Wallaker (Doctor Strange’s Chiwetel Ejiofor) and 29-year-old park ranger Roxton (The White Lotus’s Leo Woodall), and catching up with her foul-mouthed friends Shazzer (Sally Phillips), Jude (Shirley Henderson), and Tom (James Callis). Watch it above.
Michael Morris, whose previous works include Better Call Saul and the Oscar-nominated drama To Leslie, directs. Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson, and Hugh Grant, who’s back as the relentlessly crude Daniel Cleaver, round out the supporting cast.
“You’re effectively a nun,” he purrs at her in one scene. “A very, very naughty nun.” It’s good to know some things never change…
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