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"Bridget Jones" Stars Knackered
Romantic whimsy is hell. Either that, or press junkets.
Whatever the reason, Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant have filled reporters' notebooks with weary tales and retirement dreams while promoting their new movie, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, opening Friday.
Zellweger, who stars as the comedy's romantically perplexed heroine, is said to be ready for a yearlong break; Grant, back as Bridget Jones' devilish suitor, is said to be ready for an even longer, and possibly permanent, one.
"I'd like to have coffee every day with my friends," Zellweger told the Toronto Star. "I envy my friends who have that. So, I am stopping. I am not really considering anything until this time next year."
Zellweger, 35, won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Cold Mountain in February. She told reporters she's had little time to admire the statuette. Shortly after the Academy Awards, she took off for the location set of The Cinderella Man, a Ron Howard boxing biopic costarring Russell Crowe.
The Cinderella Man, due for a June 2005 release, is the only Zellweger film in the pipeline for next year. A project to star Zellweger as 1960s rock singer Janis Joplin recently took up residence in development hell, clearing the actress' books. Which is just the way Zellweger, recently romantically detached from White Stripes rocker Jack White, likes it.
"I feel like I need to take a minute and have a little bit more of life experience," Zellweger told Reuters.
Since 2000, Zellweger has appeared in eight movies, including 2001's Bridget Jones' Diary. She's also lent her voice to this fall's CGI-animated comedy, Shark Tale.
Still, talking about taking a break is one thing. Actually taking a break is another. As Bridget Jones costar Hugh Grant could attest.
Grant, 44, has been vowing to quit acting for years. In 2003, he told TV's Extra his problem was "boredom with show business."
The British leading man sounded no more engaged in recent interviews for the new Bridget Jones movie. To the U.K.'s Evening Standard, he called film acting a "miserable experience," and termed his status as "sort of semi-retired."
In Australia's Sydney Sun-Herald, Grant said he felt he proved what he needed to prove--i.e., that he's a good actor--with the 2002 drama-comedy, About a Boy.
"I've done very little in the past three years," Grant told the newspaper. "I don't return my agent's calls. I don't read scripts very much. I was never a very committed actor."
True to his word, Grant has no new films in the offing.
To complete the Bridget Jones ring of ennui, Colin Firth, who plays Zellweger's lawyerly love, Mark Darcy, told the Calgary Sun he'd be "quite content to never do another Bridget Jones movie again."
Not that there'd be anyone around to star in it anyway.
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