Bridget Jones
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Oct 31, 2026
DanHOST
no
KyleHOST
Is this in the style of Bridget Jones?
DanHOST
No.
DanHOST
Okay.
Tara LeedermanHOST
There are definitely
Jenna HarteHOST
some limits, though, right? For Bridget Jones...
Jenna HarteHOST
is basically Pride and Prejudice, but it is rewritten into an original story, right? So a story that's not in public domain, you can't just take it right now.
Jenna HarteHOST
Like you couldn't take Harry Potter, for example, and rewrite it into Harriet... potter right like i would argue that there are lots of stories around it it goes on the internet and all that like i'm not saying you can't do that but like you're not going to make money out of it right that would be the infringing bit if you tried to publish a book called harriet potter which was harry potter as a girl or something right like So there's some limitations there.
BryonyHOST
to just make another period remake.
BryonyHOST
It's like, why not try and set it in, like do something different with it? Like, yeah, do what Bridget Jones did for Pride and Prejudice, you know, set persuasion.
BryonyHOST
But it's modern day.
BryonyHOST
You know, how would that work? That sort of thing.
Mairead RonanPANELIST
There you go.
Mairead RonanPANELIST
So he was going out with Bridget Jones.
Mairead RonanPANELIST
That's where he disappeared to for a little while.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
Yeah.
JonathanHOST
But after Jerry Maguire she became a real leading lady with films like One True Thing.
JonathanHOST
She was Bridget Jones, Nurse Betty, Chicago, and she won two Oscars for Cold Mountain and Judy.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm working harder than you would ever believe.
JeffHOST
That shows great range that in back-to-back movies she goes from playing essentially, what, a high school student even though she was around 23 when Empire Records was filmed, and then is the love interest to Tom Cruise and she's got like a five-year-old child too.
Gaby S.GUEST
I majored in science in college, uh, uh, so I was very well aware of, like, what was healthy eating and portions and, and all kinds of stuff.
Gaby S.GUEST
Um, there's a, there's a great line from the, the book of Bridget Jones's Diary where she can't do any regular math, but she can tell you the calorie count for any food out there.
Gaby S.GUEST
And, and, [laughs] you know, I, I can, I can do basic math because I majored in a math-based subject, but, but I, I, I recognize that very clearly and I really related to that idea of knowing the calorie counts of almost everything out there.
Gaby S.GUEST
Um, but I was a grazer.
DaveHOST
It sort of oozes off the screen.
DaveHOST
And when I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, well, who does Hannah remind me of? And it's sort of, there are elements of sort of Bridget Jones that I got.
DaveHOST
It sort of looks a little bit like Bridget Jones.
DaveHOST
And if you remember the film Bridget Jones, she has a gay friend.
DaveHOST
in Bridget Jones you know when you used to go and meet in the pub or meet for a coffee and I just sort of saw Bridget Jones was like a film with her gay friend you know there were elements of it I thought that were like that and I'm sure you've got the blonde hair as well so that's what just sort of clicked with me and I would take that as a great compliment you know because she was brilliant in that film
Hannah MageeGUEST
Thank you.
Hannah MageeGUEST
Yeah, I'm happy to play Renee Zellweger's younger budget jump anytime.
Alexandra RyanHOST
But the show is-
Kendra BeckerHOST
The same with Renee Zellweger when she did Bridget Jones.
Kendra BeckerHOST
She had to be-
Alexandra RyanHOST
Yeah
Maria GarciaHOST
He was.
Marta MartinezGUEST
And he plays it afterwards in Bridget Jones, and-
Maria GarciaHOST
Yeah
Marta MartinezGUEST
... it's just, like, even physically, right? Like, the way he stands, it's just, like, perfect Darcy.
Leah RileyHOST
But for her, she was talking about like, I really had to gain like quite a lot of weight in order to play that role.
Leah RileyHOST
And it felt like I had this flashback to like when everyone talked about Bridget Jones and like the Bridget Jones series and how like Bridget Jones, like Renee Zellweger, wasn't she brave for putting on this face? And like it took me back to that like 90s me where I was like, but doesn't she just look like – like Bridget looked pretty much just like a – like I was always like – why are we pretending like Bridget Jones is like some sort, like, you know what I mean? Like, and I'm not saying this from a place of like, is weight bad, good, hot, not hot.
Leah RileyHOST
But I was just like, to my eyes, Bridget Jones just looked like a person in their body without any, like, I would never have thought anything about their body.
Leah RileyHOST
Like, you know what I mean? Like it was just a very neutral body.
Leah RileyHOST
And so I had this moment where I was like, oh my God, this feels like a Bridget Jones moment to me.
Leah RileyHOST
And realizing that, and then also kind of having, and I think that is a time that I think from that point, I started to notice bodies differently because I tend to – and I'm not trying to act like I'm above it all.
Leah RileyHOST
I definitely am not.
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