Bridget Jones's Baby: Colin Firth admits he didn't think sequel could work without Hugh Grant

One notable absence, however, is Hugh Grant who plays Daniel Cleaver in the 2000 original Bridget Jones’s Diary and its sequel The Edge of Reason, released in 2004.

“I thought it couldn’t work without Hugh.

“Yeah, well at first I thought: ‘it can’t possibly work,’ he said, before quipping: “I had no idea [Hugh] would prove to be completely irrelevant.”