George Clooney To Play Colin Firth In 'Bridget Jones'

[Tuesday, September 24th, 2002]
George Clooney is taking over Colin Firth's role in the "Bridget Jones" follow-up, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," reports Zap2it.

The British actor actually has a part in the second novel by Helen Fielding, when Bridget Jones interviews the "Pride and Prejudice" star for an article. However, since Firth played Jones' love interest Mr. Darcy (Darcy, of course, inpsired by Firth's character in "Pride and Prejudice" BBC series) in the first movie, "Bridget Jones' Diary," another actor had to play the role of a famous star that Jones' is smitten with -- enter Clooney.

"Clooney should be very funny and anyway he won't have to do much, just be himself," screenwriter Andrew Davies tells the London Star.

No production date has been set yet for “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.”

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