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According to an article in the Telegraph the other day, Bridget Jones will
start filming later this year.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Becoming Bridget
(Filed: 06/09/2003)
The sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary will leave Ren偾 Zellweger ?0 million
richer and 20lb heavier. But, she tells John Hiscock, it remains a labour
of love
Ren偾 Zellweger shakes her head in disbelief. "I guess I'm cinematically
pretty ignorant," she says sadly. She is kicking herself for not having
contacted Doris Day to discuss her role in her latest film, Down With Love,
a sex comedy filmed in the frothy, retro-style of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson
romantic romps of the 1960s, which is due to be released in October.
Ren偾 Zellweger at this year's Baftas
"Can you believe it never occurred to me to call her?" she asks, wide-eyed,
as she curls on a chair in New York's Regency Hotel. "It didn't come to
mind. I didn't imagine her in my mind when I read the script. Isn't that
crazy?"
She will be returning to London again later this year to film the Bridget
Jones sequel, The Edge of Reason, and is already immersed in preparation
for the role.
Bridget Jones's Diary, based on Helen Fielding's novel about the romantic
misadventures of a thirtysomething London girl, brought in nearly ?00 million
at the box office and Zellweger, who was paid ? million for the first film,
will get ?0 million for the sequel.
Once again, she is consuming milkshakes, pizza, peanut butter sandwiches
and doughnuts to gain the 20lb she feels she needs to portray the weight-
challenged Bridget.
The normally calm and unruffled Zellweger flushes with annoyance when she
recalls the erroneous newspaper reports that she was unwilling to do a sequel
because she did not want to put on weight again.
"There have been pages and pages written about me saying that I don't want
to do it because I don't want to get fat again," she says. "That just makes
me angry because that's not how I look at the work I do. That's a dumb and
shallow thing to say. If you love a character, then it shouldn't be a big
deal to turn yourself into her. In fact, that's part of the joy of it. That's
who Bridget is ?she's heavier than me, with a different body, and if I'm
going to play that character, I'm going to have that body, or what's the
point?"
Zellweger's big break came when she was cast opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry
Maguire. She followed that up with roles in A Price Above Rubies, The
Bachelor, Nurse Betty and Me, Myself and Irene.
After she overcame the initial controversy regarding her casting in Bridget
Jones's Diary ?it was felt by some that Bridget should have been played by
an English actress ?she was a critical success in the lead role, earning an
Oscar nomination.
She won rave reviews and another nomination for her singing and dancing as
Roxie Hart in Chicago and she sings again, in a duet with her old friend
Ewan McGregor, called Here's to Love, in Down With Love.
Like the Day-Hudson collaborations Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back, Down
With Love is a showcase of pastel colours, glamorous apartments and chic
wardrobes. The script is also bursting with sexy double entendres, but no
actual sex.
It's an unabashed homage to simpler days, when the leading lady's character
was always a virgin and the nearest thing to sex on screen was the fade-out
kiss.
"I had the time of my life," Zellweger recalls of making the film. "I'd been
friends with Ewan for a long time and I've been a fan of his for even longer.
I've wanted to work with him because I find the way that he approaches his
work and the choices that he makes to be inspiring. Going to work was a joy
because we saw eye to eye on everything. I just loved how we communicated."
Zellweger's lack of a male companion became the focus of journalists when she
attended this year's Oscar ceremony on her own and, instead of doing the usual
round of post-show parties, went home to be with her dog.
There was, though, nothing mysterious about Zellweger's reasons for doing so:
while she is attractive, funny and intelligent, she is also extremely
independent.
"I didn't grow up thinking, Oh, I can't wait to meet a guy who's going to
give me a great life," she says.
Recently, however, she has been appearing in the gossip columns for another
reason: she has been spending time in Detroit with her new boyfriend, Jack
White of the White Stripes, the stylish duo from Detroit whose bluesy garage
music has been central to pop's new love affair with old-fashioned rock'n'roll.
They met while filming Anthony Minghella's forthcoming Cold Mountain in
Romania last year. Zellweger stars with Nicole Kidman and Jude Law in the Civil
War epic, while White has a small part as her husband and also wrote songs for
the film.
They have been able to be together this summer because a car accident landed
the guitarist in the emergency ward with a broken finger and put an end to the
band's summer touring plans. Nobody, however, is yet talking about marriage.
Until now, she has not been lucky in love. Her first relationship, with
musician Sims Ellison, ended in tragedy when she left Texas for Hollywood and
he committed suicide. An 18-month affair with Jim Carrey, who was her co-star
in Me, Myself and Irene, ended abruptly three years ago and she had a brief
dalliance with George Clooney, with whom she remains firm friends.
But Zellweger is a woman who takes her relationships very seriously and when
they end she takes the time to be alone to think things over and evaluate the
toll they have taken on her. Her break-up with Jim Carrey was particularly
devastating to her.
It seems unlikely that her new relationship will compromise the fierce
independence she has developed since then: "I've learned a few things in my
few experiences and I am not willing to compromise for love. That's not going
to happen. Life's too short. Love's a wonderful, wonderful thing, but not at
the expense of all the other wonderful things."
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