“Hugh Grant reveals details about the new ‘Bridget Jones’ film”

Moviegoers who see the upcoming Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy should be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster, according to Hugh Grant.

“It’s not only extremely funny, but also very, very sad,” the actor said on the British talk show “The Graham Norton Show” on Friday, according to the BBC.

Grant will return to his role as the swashbuckling Daniel Cleaver in the British romantic comedy series based on the books by Helen Fielding.

The fourth film will be a bit darker than its predecessors due to its source material. Fielding’s 2013 novel of the same name follows Bridget as a widowed mother in her fifties navigating the world of dating.

Renee Zellweger will reprise her lead role as the title character, who was caught in a love triangle between Grant’s Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy in the first film in the series, 2001’s Bridget Jones’ Diary.

Grant returned for 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, but turned down the third installment, 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby.

“I really couldn’t fit into my character – he just didn’t belong, so I stepped down,” he told Vanity Fair last month.

This time, he said, the filmmakers had a strong desire to “confine” him.

“And I felt he needed a third dimension, he’s in his sixties now, you can’t just have him walking down the King’s Road keeping an eye on young girls,” Grant added. The actor worked with producers to develop what he called a “pretty good” “intermediate story” for the character.

“Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” is scheduled to be released on Valentine’s Day 2025.