Why Hugh Grant didn’t think Renée Zellweger could pull off Bridget Jones role

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Hugh Grant is looking back on Bridget Jones’s Diary 19 years later!

“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.

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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.

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