Peacock has released a trailer for the film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Fielding’s novel, published in 2013 by Knopf, is the third book featuring Bridget Jones, a hapless London woman trying to find love and improve her life. The series kicked off in 1998 with Bridget Jones’s Diary and continued in 2000 with Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
Three previous films have featured the character, played by Renée Zellweger. The new movie, which is directed by Michael Morris, also stars Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Leo Woodall.
The trailer opens with Zellweger saying in a voiceover, “In life, there are memories that will never leave us, but sometimes those memories are suddenly all we’re left with.”
In another scene, Thompson, playing Jones’ doctor, tells her, “Bridget, you’re a widow with two wonderful children. My advice to you is put your own oxygen mask on first.”
Later in the trailer, Zellweger meets her new love interest, a younger man played by Woodall, who rescues Zellweger and her two children, who are stuck in a tree. Later, on a date, Zellweger asks Woodall how old he is. “Twenty-eight,” he replies sheepishly. “Oh!” Zellweger says.
“No, I’m just kidding,” Woodall says. “I’m 29.” Zellweger laughs nervously and takes a big gulp of white wine.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will begin streaming on Peacock on Feb. 13, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
