MOVIE NEWS – The fourth Bridget Jones film – Bridget Jones: The Huntsman – is coming, and Hugh Grant, who starred in the first two films but missed the third, is returning. That’s why it’s interesting to see what happened to his character, Daniel Cleaver, in the last twenty years when we haven’t heard from him.

Grant revealed that his character has naturally gotten much older, he’s now 64, so he’s not the same as he used to be, meaning he doesn’t chase girls on the Kings Road and he sees the world differently. “We came up with a nice little story for him, in which he meets a woman, they have a child, but they break up because he’s having an affair with his sister,” Grant told Vanity Fair. – So he won’t see his son for ten years because of that.”

Grant previously said he didn’t see the point of the aging Daniel Cleaver starring in the next Bridget Jones film, but then he was offered the role and accepted. “The offer was okay, but I could have imagined something better. So we came up with – or I came up with – a really good connecting story that makes it logical for Daniel to be back with Bridget.”

The heroine of Bridget Jones: The Hunt is now a widow with two children, but she’s still looking for love. The opportunity presents itself in the person of a sympathetic young man (Leo Woodall) and a middle-aged teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and of course Cleaver, played by Grant, is also involved.

(Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – domestic release: February 13, 2025.)