After contributing several successful tunes to the soundtracks of films like Fifty Shades of Grey, Divergent, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Ellie Goulding is once again lending her musical talents to a major motion picture with the release of her new track “Still Falling for You.”
The singer’s latest single was recorded for the upcoming sequel Bridget Jones’s Baby, the third installment in the popular series which follows Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) who, after breaking up with her long-time beau, meets a charming American (Patrick Dempsey) and later becomes pregnant, though she’s unsure of who the baby’s father is.
Renée Zellweger knows just how tough the choice her character, Bridget Jones, faces in "Bridget Jones' Baby" is.
The third film in the beloved franchise centers on the titular character's life as she navigates a pregnancy, two possible fathers, and an unsure future.
One of those men is a familiar face: Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), who in the first two films battled playboy Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) for Bridget's heart -- and won.
In this installment, Mark and Bridget are on the outs and Bridget wins the affection of Jack (Patrick Dempsey), a rich entrepreneur who unlike Cleaver doesn't really have an obvious downside.
"The nice thing about playing this role is that I didn't have to choose," Zellweger told CNN during the cast's promotional tour. "I could argue on behalf of either of these guys."
Whatever Bridget's decision, Zellweger said, the drama is the franchise's gain. "It's an interesting new dynamic," she said. "It's a more sophisticated type of competition because they're both great guys."
It's been 12 years since Renée Zellweger played the lovable Bridget Jones and six years since she made a film. The actress is back and starring in Bridget Jones's Baby, having taken a hiatus from Hollywood. Why did she decide to step away from acting – and how does it feel to be back?
"I was curious about other things," Renée explained, speaking at a London press conference that HELLO! Online attended. "I had made a lot of promises to myself that I would do this and that. The cycle of making films is continuous – there's no time to explore other things.
"I wanted to learn something new and grow as a person and see if I had aptitude for these things that interest me. And if not now, it would be, 'Oh in two more years, or three years, then ten years', and then just, ultimately, you just don't do them. And I didn't want that to happen."
Renée Zellweger is charming as ever in "Bridget Jones's Baby ," a lively return to form for the unlikely trilogy about an ordinary woman and her professional and romantic woes.
It turns out a little break is just what this series needed to find its footing after the manic missteps of "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," which fell into some of the all too common traps of sequels looking to up the stakes (hello, Thailand prison sequence).
That's likely due to the fact that Sharon Maguire, who directed the practically perfect "Bridget Jones's Diary," is back (Beeban Kidron directed the second), working from a script from author Helen Fielding, Emma Thompson (very funny as an unamused doctor), and Dan Mazer.
Let's get over the silly fact that this movie essentially had to press reboot on the happy ending of the second, when Bridget said at the end how even at 33 she was able to find love and happiness with one Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Cut to 12 years later (between movies), Bridget is in her 40s and Mark Darcy has gone off and married someone else.