

Original title Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Not that Bridget's counting, but it's been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven precious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark. Apart from discovering that he’s a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life. Renee Zellweger is back as everyone's favorite witty heroine in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, which takes her from the cappuccino queues of Notting Hill to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy.

The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is followed by Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. It has been turned into a film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. First published in 1999, The Edge of Reason is the sequel to Helen Fielding's number one best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary. Sadly, Renee’s love life hasn’t been all that – with a short-lived marriage to country music star Kenny Chesney and seven-year relationship with American musician Doyle Bramhall II which ended in 2019.Paperback. The star said she had been penalised for changing her looks, but she said she was "living a different, happy, more fulfilling life" Last year, the actress opened up about her "painful" experience and humiliation after she overheard strangers on a train negatively talking about her appearance. Shortly after she said: "Perhaps I look different. Renee took a five-year hiatus in 2010 from screen acting, and then re-appeared at the Elle Women in Hollywood Awards with a dramatic new look. She scooped an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Cold Mountain in 2003 and two years later received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her career then took quite a turn, finding more success in the role of Roxie Hart in the well-received musical Chicago opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere. Renee's incredible performance won over audiences and critics, leading to her getting Golden Globe, Oscar and BAFTA nominations. The words need to stop but somehow don’t." I’d have moments when I feel like I’m sitting beside myself watching my Bridget alter-ego spiralling, circling the drain. Most closely, she always had the most badly timed social disasters," explained Renee. "All the things you would not like to have in common with Bridget are the things that I find I relate to. In a bid to get it spot on, Renee spent three weeks working undercover as an intern at a British publishing house and went out to get boozed with Londoners.īridget was 32 in the books – the same age Renee was when the first film was made - which meant the actress felt like they had a lot of similarities. However, the actress put on weight for the role, started smoking herbal cigarettes and received dialect coaching. The decision caused much controversy as Renee was a non-smoker, wasn't overweight and was an American. It was a big call to cast Texan actress Renee Zellweger as the British heroine.
