When art imitates life.
Renée Zellweger admits that over the years she’s adopted some of her longtime character Bridget Jones’s most famous traits.
“All the clumsy things,” she told Page Six exclusively at the New York premiere of “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” Wednesday, “And the ‘fake it ’til you make it’ [mantra].”
The actress, 55, explained that earlier in the day, “my mic pack fell off when we were doing a television show and it was sliding down my back and luckily it got caught in my skirt!”
Zellweger added that the “faking it ’til you make it” motto is “really just doing it, isn’t it? And not judging yourself as you do it. It’s just doing it, right?”
The Oscar winner is back again playing Bridget Jones in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” which finds the titular character widowed with two young children, while also being courted by two hunky younger men played by Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.
The “Chicago” star, who has been playing the hapless heroine for over two decades, raved about her character’s “authenticity and her optimism and her sense of humor and her goodness.”
“I love how open she is. I love her physicality, I love that she walks like a good person and she’s open to everything…and I love that she’s constantly, authentically charming and herself,” the actress told us. “And I love that she doesn’t mean anybody’s standard idea about beauty or success but she triumphs anyway by forging her own path.”
Zellweger has played Bridget Jones in four different movies, starting with “Bridget Jones’s Diary” in 2001, followed by a sequel in 2004 and another film in 2010.
The “Jerry Maguire” star said that she “never ever” thought she would be reprising the character over 20 years later.
Zellweger added that she spent her time on the first Bridget Jones flick “trying to not get fired and hoping to not let all my friends down on the set…hoping it worked!”
Unlike Jones, Zellweger is happily dating one person: “Wheelers Dealers” host Ant Anstead.
He accompanied her to the London premiere of the movie and described the movie as “absolutely utterly brilliant” and cheekily called the “lead actress mesmerising [sic] and smoking HOT.
“I have a mega crush on her! I’ve let the missus know she’s my hall pass.”
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