Hugh Grant comments on 'very, very sad' Bridget Jones 4. Source: The Graham Norton Show, BBC
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00:00You are as back as Daniel Cleaver.
00:02We've crammed me in.
00:04OK.
00:06It's actually a very good and moving script,
00:09and I say this as someone who's horrid about scripts.
00:12This was brilliant, because Helen Fielding, who wrote these books,
00:16she had a sad story.
00:18She got married to an American screenwriter, she had children,
00:21then he died, and she raised the children by herself,
00:24and then she started writing a novel about a woman raising children
00:27by herself with a dead father or husband,
00:30realised the main character was a bit like Bridget,
00:33so made it into a Bridget Jones book.
00:35And as well as being extremely funny, it's very, very sad.
00:39But absolutely no role for Daniel Cleaver, as far as I could see.
00:44But they wanted to cram me in,
00:46so we sat down together and invented a preposterous...