- Isla Fisher is set to join the cast of the new Bridget Jones movie, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
- Nico Parker, Josette Simon and Leila Farzad are also the newest names linked to the fourth film in the franchise
- Renée Zellweger will return as Bridget, while Hugh Grant is also set to star once more as Daniel Cleaver – as well as a whole host of other big names
It’s set to be the rom-com of 2025.
And now Bridget Jones fans can get even more excited for the fourth installment of the hit movie franchise – as some big names are set to join the star-studded cast.
This week, it was announced that Isla Fisher, Nico Parker, Josette Simon and Leila Farzad have all signed up to feature in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which will hit theaters and be available to watch on Peacock on Valentine’s Day next year.
No stranger to rom-coms herself, Fisher, 48, has previously starred in noughties classics such as Definitely, Maybe, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Wedding Crashers.
Fans will also recognise Parker from her critically acclaimed appearance as Sarah Miller in HBO’s The Last of Us, and the British actress was awarded the Breakthrough Performance Award at Sundance Film Festival this year for her role in Suncoast.
Likewise, Josette Simon (Anatomy of a Scandal) and Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie) are sure to be valuable additions to the cast list.
Grant: ‘The script left me in tears!’
The movie will see Renée Zellweger reprise the leading role of Bridget, and is also set to star Hugh Grant as the charming Daniel Cleaver – despite his character being killed off in the third movie.
Emma Thompson will once again take on the role of Bridget’s doctor – which she played in the third film, Bridget Jones’ Baby – while the rest of the supporting cast features Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent as Bridget’s mom and dad; Sarah Solemani (Miranda), Sally Phillips (Shazzer), Shirley Henderson (Jude) and James Callis (Tom) as Bridget’s friends; Celia Imrie as ‘Auntie’ Una Alconbury; Neil Pearson as TV executive Richard Finch; and Joanna Scanlan as Cathy.
Newcomers Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall will also star.
White Lotus and One Day star Woodall is thought to have been cast as the hot 30-year-old who Bridget starts sleeping with as she navigates the dating world again, following the death of her husband, Mark Darcy.
Darcy’s passing also means that Colin Firth will not feature for the first time since the Bridget Jones’ Diary hit movie theaters in 2001.
The fourth movie will follow the plot of author Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel, Mad About the Boy. It is set four years after the previous installment, and sees Bridget a widow with two small children, after Mark was killed by a landmine in Sudan. In the book, Grant’s character Cleaver is godfather to her children, Billy and Mabel.Filming will shoot in London this summer – and actor Grant, 63, previously revealed how the script “left him in tears”.
