Date: 16th September 2024

Hugh Grant rewrote his part in Bridget Jones 4 before joining the cast.


Hugh Grant will return for the upcoming fourth installment of Renée Zellweger‘s romantic comedy franchise, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, after carving out a spot for his womanizing character Daniel Cleaver.

The seasoned actor is definitely a fan of the set-to-be-released Valentine’s Day rom-com considering he put in a lot of effort to be included. Opening up to Vanity Fair, Grant said that he loved Helen Fielding’s novel of the same name, as well as the script, even exclaiming that "it made me cry." However, he wasn’t the biggest fan of his character’s part in the script.

So he took matters into his own hands. "They wanted him in it, and in the end, they’d done something I wasn’t crazy about," the 64-year-old performer revealed. His answer to that was: "I wrote some scenes." Now, the Hugh Grant version of Daniel Cleaver will be returning in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Hugh explained that he was not involved in the 2016 movie Bridget Jones’s Baby because his character "just didn’t belong."

When he got contacted about Mad About the Boy, he said that he "loved the script."

"It's absolutely the best Bridget Jones book, and I think the movie is very funny and very, very moving," he gushed about the new movie, which is due in 2025. "I’m not in a lot, I did a week’s work, that’s it … But when you see the film, you’ll be very moved."

Grant will next be seen in the A24 thriller “Heretic” which hits cinemas November 15th.

Source: Press Release