
Leo Woodall. Michael Loccisano/Getty Photos
Leo Woodall is opening up about filming intercourse scenes with costar Renée Zellweger for the most recent Bridget Jones sequel, Mad Concerning the Boy.
“These intimate scenes are type of awkward, you realize?” Woodall, 28, instructed Selection in an interview printed on Saturday, February 15. “It doesn’t matter how attractive it might seem within the ultimate reduce — doing it’s type of awkward. So the very best factor is for us to type of simply have fun with it, and it shines by means of.”
Woodall stars because the youthful love curiosity to Zellweger’s beloved Bridget Jones in Mad Concerning the Boy, which sees the principle character left as a widowed single mom after the dying of her husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
Woodall instructed Selection that he needed his and Zellweger’s on-screen relationship to “really feel actual” and never act as a “trope-y mechanism for the plot.” He stated of age-gap romances, “They’ve existed they usually do exist in all places. We’re simply not used to seeing them on-screen.”
Woodall added, “What the Bridget Jones films achieve this nicely is that they’re so relatable they usually strike so many true chords that folks all around the world and throughout generations can relate to.”

Leo Woodall and Renée Zellweger. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for SiriusXM
Talking with the outlet on the movie’s London premiere, Zellweger agreed along with her costar, saying, “I imply, I feel it’s nothing new. However perhaps the social taboos are melting away. It’s by no means a foul factor. There are particular issues that we most likely don’t must have opinions about. And the place folks discover love, why would that ever be an issue?”
Whereas Zellweger’s Bridget finds herself caught between two love pursuits in Mad Concerning the Boy, she solely instructed Us Weekly that she initially doubted whether or not her character would actually be completely satisfied with out Mark Darcy.
“It was unhappy as an actress to not share the expertise with [Firth] and in addition know that Mark Darcy’s gone away,” Zellweger instructed Us on the Wednesday, February 12, purple carpet premiere held at Jazz at Lincoln Heart in New York Metropolis.
“[It’s] one thing actually vital for Bridget’s journey on this chapter of her life, which is that if she does select new happiness, does that imply that she didn’t love him sufficient?” she continued. “I feel it’s a well-recognized battle for lots of people.”
Zellweger reprised the position of Bridget Jones after starring in three earlier movies: Bridget Jones’s Diary in 2001, Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Cause in 2004 and Bridget Jones’s Child in 2016.
Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy is out now on Peacock.

Leo Woodall. Michael Loccisano/Getty Photos
Leo Woodall is opening up about filming intercourse scenes with costar Renée Zellweger for the most recent Bridget Jones sequel, Mad Concerning the Boy.
“These intimate scenes are type of awkward, you realize?” Woodall, 28, instructed Selection in an interview printed on Saturday, February 15. “It doesn’t matter how attractive it might seem within the ultimate reduce — doing it’s type of awkward. So the very best factor is for us to type of simply have fun with it, and it shines by means of.”
Woodall stars because the youthful love curiosity to Zellweger’s beloved Bridget Jones in Mad Concerning the Boy, which sees the principle character left as a widowed single mom after the dying of her husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
Woodall instructed Selection that he needed his and Zellweger’s on-screen relationship to “really feel actual” and never act as a “trope-y mechanism for the plot.” He stated of age-gap romances, “They’ve existed they usually do exist in all places. We’re simply not used to seeing them on-screen.”
Woodall added, “What the Bridget Jones films achieve this nicely is that they’re so relatable they usually strike so many true chords that folks all around the world and throughout generations can relate to.”

Leo Woodall and Renée Zellweger. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for SiriusXM
Talking with the outlet on the movie’s London premiere, Zellweger agreed along with her costar, saying, “I imply, I feel it’s nothing new. However perhaps the social taboos are melting away. It’s by no means a foul factor. There are particular issues that we most likely don’t must have opinions about. And the place folks discover love, why would that ever be an issue?”
Whereas Zellweger’s Bridget finds herself caught between two love pursuits in Mad Concerning the Boy, she solely instructed Us Weekly that she initially doubted whether or not her character would actually be completely satisfied with out Mark Darcy.
“It was unhappy as an actress to not share the expertise with [Firth] and in addition know that Mark Darcy’s gone away,” Zellweger instructed Us on the Wednesday, February 12, purple carpet premiere held at Jazz at Lincoln Heart in New York Metropolis.
“[It’s] one thing actually vital for Bridget’s journey on this chapter of her life, which is that if she does select new happiness, does that imply that she didn’t love him sufficient?” she continued. “I feel it’s a well-recognized battle for lots of people.”
Zellweger reprised the position of Bridget Jones after starring in three earlier movies: Bridget Jones’s Diary in 2001, Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Cause in 2004 and Bridget Jones’s Child in 2016.
Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy is out now on Peacock.