Renée Zellweger Rocks Sexy Lace Gown and Glowy Glam for Reunion with Hugh Grant atBridget Jones 4Premiere

Mar. 15, 2025

Renée Zellwegeris back on the red carpet with her longtime costarHugh Grant!

More than two decades after 2001 release ofBridget Jones’s Diary, Zellweger, 55, and Grant, 64, came together to promoteBridget Jones: Mad About the Boyat the Jan. 27 premiere in Paris.

Grant (Daniel Cleaver) and Zellweger (Bridget Jones) beamed in coordinating looks while posing on the carpet.

Hugh Grant and Renée Zellweger attend the premiere of “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” in Paris 24 years after the release of original film.Stephane Cardinale/Getty

Stephane Cardinale/Getty

Meanwhile, Grant wore a traditional menswear ensemble featuring a black suit and button-up shirt, which is similar to the attire he wore to the premiere 20-plus years ago.

Hugh Grant and Renée Zellweger at the premiere of “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”.SEBASTIEN DUPUY/AFP via Getty

SEBASTIEN DUPUY/AFP via Getty

Among the other familiar faces starring in the movie areEmma Thompson(Dr. Rawlings), James Callis, Sarah Solemani, Sally Phillips and Shirley Henderson reprising their roles as Bridget’s friends and Gemma Jones andHarry Potter’s Jim Broadbent returning as Bridget’s mother and father.

Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant attend the 2001 UK premiere of “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.Dave Hogan/Getty

Dave Hogan/Getty

In a Jan. 15 interview withBritish Vogue,Zellwegeropened up aboutwhat it’s been like to slip back into her role as the hilarious and drama-prone protagonist over the years. “It’s such an unusual experience to be able to revisit a character in different stages of her life,” she said in part, noting that it’s been “pretty special.”

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Elsewhere in the story, she addressed her reasons for taking asix-year hiatusfrom acting between 2010 and 2016.

“I needed to. I was sick of the sound of my own voice,” theChicagostar said. “When I was working, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, listen to you. Are you sad again, Renée? Oh, is this your mad voice?’ It was a regurgitation of the same emotional experiences,” she explained.

Although she wasn’t on set, she kept busy with multiple projects, from writing music and studying international law to building a house, founding a production company and spending time with family and her dogs. “I got healthy,” she said.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boywill premiere exclusively on Peacock on Feb. 13.

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