It’s almost impossible to imagine anybody else playing Bridget Jones other than Renée Zellweger.
Both actors returned for sequel, The Edge of Reason, in 2004, with Zellweger reprising the role in 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby.
Grant recently said Zellweger was “one of the few actresses [he] hasn’t fallen out with” and, earlier this year, cracked a Bridget Jones joke at the Baftas after his former co-star won Best Actress for Judy.
I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character, it did seem like a stretch.”