Renée Zellweger Criticises 'Fixation' With Bridget Jones' Weight

Bridget Jones, Notting Hill, and Love, Actually manager Richard Curtis has antecedently apologised for making jokes astir women characters’ value successful his movies. 

“I deliberation I was behind, you know, down the curve, and those jokes aren’t immoderate longer funny, truthful I don’t consciousness I was malicious astatine the time, but I deliberation I was unobservant and not as, you know, arsenic clever arsenic I should person been,” he told Today back successful 2023.

It’s not the archetypal clip Renée has spoken retired astir comments connected Bridget’s weight, either. 

In a 2016 British Vogue interview, the histrion said: “Bridget is simply a perfectly mean weight, and I’ve ne'er understood wherefore it matters truthful much. No antheral histrion would get specified scrutiny if helium did the aforesaid happening [gain weight] for a role.”