Black Mirror creators to release Netflix comedy Death to 2020 - with Hugh Grant, Samuel L Jackson and Lisa Kudrow joining the cast

We couldn’t imagine anyone else as Bridget Jones at this point, but Hugh Grant admitted he wasn’t sold on casting Renée Zellweger for the role.

“The Undoing” actor who played caddish Daniel Cleaver alongside Texas-born Zellweger in the hugely popular flick admitted that he was initially skeptical of the unusual casting.“There was a whole scandal about why isn’t this a British actress?” Grant said in a new BBC2 documentary, “Being Bridget Jones.”“I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character? It did seem like a stretch,” he confessed.Grant revealed that the two-time Oscar winner’s first attempt at a British

Hugh Grant was trepidacious about Renée Zellweger starring in the “Bridget Jones” movie series, but he admits the worry was for nothing.

Being Bridget Jones, now streaming on BBC iPlayer.“I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character, it did seem like a stretch,” Grant continued.The actor added that Zellweger’s first attempt was “good” but also sounded like Princess Margaret, which he described as “startling”.“She was told to kind of, well she thought she better loosen it up a bit,” he added. “Then she came in and it was Princess Margaret having had a stroke.

Hugh Grant admits he had initial reservations about Renee Zellweger being cast in Bridget Jones’s Diary.There were raised eyebrows when the American was given the lead role in the 2000 smash.

We weren’t sure how to react when we learned that the creator of Black Mirror was making a show about 2020.

Hugh Grant has been joined by a ton of amazing actors in Netflix’s upcoming comedy special from the creators of Black Mirror, called Death to 2020.

The creator of “Black Mirror” is closing out 2020 with a big new Netflix comedy event special.

Naman Ramachandran Stars including Samuel L. Jackson (“Pulp Fiction”), Hugh Grant (“The Undoing”) and Lisa Kudrow (“Friends”) will feature in Netflix original comedy event “Death To 2020.”“2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of ‘Black Mirror’ couldn’t make it up… but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a little something to add,” reads the logline for the program.

Death to 2020, a new comedy special from Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.Jackson will be starring alongside Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Samson Kayo, Leslie Jones, Diane Morgan, Cristin Milioti and Joe Keery.

Wasn’t it cute in March and April, when people were sharing those memes about how awful 2020 was already? There were jokes about how aliens would probably land and the apocalypse would begin by the end of the year. Those were, of course, jokes, but unfortunately, the terribleness of 2020 has continued to a depressing point, where most of us are just counting down the days when this might all end.

Also Read: Charlie Brooker Isn't Working on 'Black Mirror' Season 6 Because He Doesn't Know If You Can 'Stomach' It Right NowPer Netflix, “Death to 2020” is “coming soon,” possibly “too soon.”You can watch a teaser for the special above.Back in May, Brooker said he wasn’t currently working on a sixth season of “Black Mirror” because he didn’t know if the world could “stomach” more of his dystopian anthology series at this particular point in time.“At the moment, I don’t know what stomach there

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has pulled the curtain back on its first project with Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones since Deadline revealed in July that it had invested their production outfit Broke And Bones.

HBO's gripping drama The Undoing will be even more blown away when they learn just who the young actor is who played Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman's son Henry. Noah Jupe is no stranger to the limelight, thanks to the fact his mum is something of a Coronation Street legend.

Is something 2020-related coming to Black Mirror?