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Colin Firth’s moose sweatshirt, or jumper, in Bridget Jones’s Diary is renowned, however he stated using it on set wasn’t a dream become a reality.
“The set was lit at about 140 degrees Fahrenheit; it melted candle lights and desiccated the turkey curry,” Firth, 63, remembered to Home entertainment Weekly in a resurfaced interview. “I practically tore the jumper to pieces pulling it off in between takes.”
Firth, who played Mark Darcy in the movie franchise, joked, “I most likely lost about 15 pounds,” admitting, “I had little love for it by the end.”
The star notoriously used the unsightly jumper in the 2001 rom-com when his character initially fulfilled Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) at a New Year’s Day event.
“Maybe this was the strange Mr. Right I’ve been waiting my entire life to fulfill,” Bridget states in her head throughout the motion picture before Darcy reverses and she sees his strong jumper option. “Maybe not,” she quips.
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The clothes product, which apparently preceded the pattern of using unsightly sweatshirts throughout the vacations, was likewise tough to make, according to the movie’s director, Sharon Maguire.
“We sent the knitting obstacle to around 20 or 30 knitters,” Maguire formerly informed EW“At initially, none of the styles worked. They were charming, however they simply weren’t amusing. Ultimately we chose it had to be a moose, not a reindeer.”
Recalling, Firth exposed that he’s not a fan of excessive joyful sweatshirts. “I have actually at times been unjustly blamed for subsequent rises in Christmas sweatshirt sales,” he shared. “For whatever factor, I tend to perspire at the sight of them.”
Firth then admitted, “I never ever observed it was a moose.”
In spite of having an unpleasant shooting experience, Firth repeated his function in 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby
The Oscar winner hasn’t dismissed a 4th installation either, informing Collider in September 2016, “One of the best rewards for doing this once again was to see Renée in the function once again.”
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“I delight in playing Mr. Darcy, however I’m not starving to play Mark Darcy once again. It’s not an aspiration,” Firth discussed. “But it is something of an aspiration to see Renée live in that function once again, due to the fact that I believe it’s one of the very best characters ever produced.”
Zellweger, 54, teased in April 2022 that she does want to repeat the function when again. “I enjoy remaining in her shoes,” she stated throughout an interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show“It makes me laugh every day on set, the options that we get to make about simply how uncomfortable we can make her scenarios. It’s so much enjoyable.”
