Make-up free Keira Knightley keeps it casual in striped shirt and boyfriend jeans as she catches a flight out of Berlin

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By Eve Buckland For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 15:46 EDT, 7 October 2017 | UPDATED: 15:01 EDT, 8 October 2017

She has been hard at work on her latest film Berlin, I Love You.

And Keira Knightley looked content and happy as she strolled through Berlin Tegel Airport on Saturday.

The Oscar-nominated actress, 32, showed off her natural beauty as she went make-up free for her trip through the terminal, revealing radiant skin and sparkling eyes.

The star looked in fantastic spirits as she chatted with a pal, signed autographs and pulled a series of animated expressions.

Berlin, I Love You is an anthology film which tells 20 separate tales of love in the German capital.

Keira will star alongside stars including Jared Leto, Renee Zellweger and Orlando Bloom.

The British beauty combines her acclaimed career with motherhood to daughter Edie, now two, who she welcomed with Klaxons frontman James Righton in May 2015.


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Ten Interesting Facts about Bridget Jones’s Diary You Might Not Know (Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Pride and Prejudice)

ANGLOTOPIA
April 27, 2016
By John Rabon

Helen Fielding exposed the world to her thirty-something protagonist in the 1996 novel Bridget Jones’s Diary.  The popularity of the book across the population would lead to 1999’s sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, two films in 2001 and 2004 based on these works, another novel, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy in 2013, and a third film not based on that novel, Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016.  With the film adaptations, actress Renee Zellweger has become as synonymous with the character as Bridget’s creator has.  If you want to know more about the books and films, read on.



Getting into Character

Before filming started, Renee Zellweger gained twenty-five pounds, put on a posh English accent, and started working in a real British publishing company.  Surprisingly enough, very few of her new coworkers actually recognised her.  Zellweger even kept a picture of then-boyfriend Jim Carrey on her desk, which employees who didn’t know her thought strange, but were too polite to say anything about it.

Friends in High Places

Salman Rushdie’s cameo in the first film was done as a favor to Helen Fielding.  The two have been long-time friends and she called Rushdie to ask him if he’d be willing to embarrass himself on camera. He recently jokingly tweeted that he considers it his finest work.



Actor Paradox

As the first two books were written well before the films came out, both of them actually make references to Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.  Of course, when they were cast in 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, no reference to them is made in the film.  In the books, Bridget is actually a huge fan of the 1995 Pride and Prejudice mini-series and gets to interview Firth for her television job.


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Renee Zellweger chopped from Bridget Jones? (No Bridget Jones...in Bridget Jones?)

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October  31, 2013



Author Helen Fielding is thought to not be on good terms with Renee. The actress may subsequently be dropped from the Mad About The Boy film, which could have two different scripts.

"They didn't really stay in touch after the last film, though Hugh, Colin and Helen all did and have a great working relationship," a source told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper. "Everyone expected Helen to thank Renee but it wouldn't have been sincere because they aren't good friends.

"The main problem was that Helen, understandably, was very protective over the screenplay and how she saw the role of Bridget being played. But Renee had her own very definite views. There was simply a clash of working personalities."

In the latest book Bridget is a 51-year-old widow with two young kids who dates a toy boy before finding love with a teacher at her son's school.

The newest Bridget Jones installment sees key character Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth in the films, killed off. The possibility of a third flick is in doubt as producers have yet to claim rights to the book.

However they have been working on an independent script called Bridget Jones' Baby. Although it was written by Helen, it allegedly has little connection to the third novel.

Now it's being suggested an actress other than Renee could play the famous character.

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Colin Firth: Bridget Jones film is in the works w/Colin Firth - it's just not the third Bridget Jones book???

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy looks unlikely to get film" however...

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THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013

Would a Bridget Jones film be the same without Colin Firth? Movie producers seem to think not.

Film rights to Helen Fielding’s latest novel Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy are yet to be snapped up despite strong book sales, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The new book sees Bridget Jones widowed at the age of 51, following the death of her former love Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth in the film franchise.

The production companies are instead working on Bridget Jones’s Baby, a film based on an original screenplay by Fielding, which will include Colin Firth.

The film, which will star Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant alongside Firth, was due to start filming in 2012 but has been delayed.

Tim Bevan of Working Title told The Hollywood Reporter: “We are still working on the script, hence the delay to the start of production, but the film is going ahead as planned.”

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Colin Firth stunned by Mark Darcy's death in Bridget Jones

BLOCKBUSTER
October 9, 2013

Colin Firth was stunned when he was told Mark Darcy was being killed off in 'Bridget Jones 3'.

The Oscar-winning actor played the gentlemanly love interest of bumbling heroine Bridget (Renee Zellweger) in the first two film adaptations of Helen Fielding's bestselling novels and was fully expecting to reprise the popular role in the next film.

However, Fielding was forced to break the news to Firth over the phone that his alter-ego doesn't feature in her long-awaited third book, 'Mad About The Boy', and instead leaves Bridget a widower.

She told TIME magazine: ''I did want to tell Colin in person but we were trying to have lunch, and I couldn't really tell him why I was trying to meet him, and he was in a different place. So I ended up telling him he died on the phone.

''I had to ask him if he had someone with him and if he was sitting down. It was like someone actually had died. We had to process it. And I was almost saying, 'I'm so sorry for your loss'.''

The next romantic comedy will see Bridget, now 51, struggling to raises their children Mabel and Billy alone, but Fielding appeared to hint at the possibility of a cameo role for Firth in the form of a ghost.

The author added: ''His presence is very much there in the book and in the child. As I told him, his memory will live on and he will rise from the dead rather like Jesus.''

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Colin Firth: How Helen Fielding Broke the News About Mark Darcy

TIME
By Radhika Jones @radhikajonesOct. 07, 2013

Fans were horrified to learn of Mark’s death in an excerpt in the U.K.’s Sunday Times Magazine on Sept. 29. But it seemed only right that Firth should hear about his demise in advance from its author.

“I did want to tell Colin in person but we were trying to have lunch, and I couldn’t really tell him why I was trying to meet him and he was in a different place,” Fielding says. “So I ended up telling him he died on the phone.” It was, as she recalls it, a very funny conversation. “I had to ask him if he had someone with him and if he was sitting down. It was like someone actually had died. We had to process it. And I was almost saying, I’m so sorry for your loss.”

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Colin Firth: Darcy is dead - Uproar by Bridget Jones fans after delicious Mark is killed off

MIRROR
By James Robertson, Lucy Buckland
September 30, 2013

Twitter exploded with reaction from "Bridge" fans across the world - with some vowing not to buy Fielding's third book

The news that Mark Darcy is dead and Bridget Jones is now a widowed "workless" mother of two has left the nation reeling. Extracts of writer Helen Fielding's third Bridge novel, Mad About The Boy, were published in the Sunday Times Magazine, and grieving fans took to Twitter to vent their frustration over the death of Turkey buffet fan and human rights activist Mark.

 Fifteen years after the last novel in the saga, it turns out unlucky-in-love Bridget married Darcy had two children - Mabel and Billy. Heralding the arrival of "chick lit", Bridget Jones's Diary started life as as a newspaper column in 1995. Two best-selling novels, with their corresponding Hollywood blockbuster film adaptations featuring Renee Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth as Darcy, followed.

 Portrayed as a stereotypical 1990s London thirty-something worried about her weight, smoking and alcohol intake, Bridget struck a chord with women of her generation. The original book was eventually voted by readers as one of the 10 novels that defined the 20th century, side by side with Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell or Anne Frank's own diary.

The modern-day heroine's story - loosely based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - was centred around love interests Darcy and her cad boss Daniel Cleaver. After hearing from her last in 1999 with Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, readers will now find Bridget as a 51-year-old widow obsessed with Twitter, wrinkles and weight.

Fielding, who has always denied that the books are autobiographical, is herself a 55-year-old single mother-of-two who ended her relationship with television executive Kevin Curran in 2009. Bridget's new adventures as a fifty-something cougar sees her meet new 30-year-old toy boy boyfriend, Roxter, on Twitter, five years after Darcy's death. But those who want to know what happened to the love of her life will have to wait until about Mad About The Boy is published on October 10, as his death will appear in a flashback deep into the book and not be revealed in advance.



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COLIN FIRTH: Mark Darcy is dead: Helen Fielding kills off heartthrob in latest Bridget Jones book (THE MIRROR)

Mark Darcy, the dashing hero who famously rescued Bridget Jones from the lonely life of a singleton, is dead.

The tragic news, which will shock his worldwide legion of fans, was revealed last night by Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding.

In the last volume of Bridget’s diaries, published more than ten years ago, Darcy - played by Colin Firth in the movie - had just proposed to Bridget.

In the latest set of Bridget’s diaries, called Mad About the Boy, it emerges that the pair were set for a lifetime of wedded bliss after getting married and having two children.

But their happiness was not to last and the new book opens five years after Darcy’s death.

Bridget has become a 51-year-old single mum whose days are filled with the school run and dealing with outbreaks of nits.



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'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' cover revealed

Published Wednesday, Jul 24 2013, 10:14am EDT

By Mayer Nissim

DIGITAL SPY 

The cover for Helen Fielding's upcoming Bridget Jones novel has been unveiled.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape on October 10 and is priced at £18.99. It is available to pre-order now.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy finds the title character in today's London attempting to juggle "drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous email cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on".

Asked about the prospect of a third movie in the series, Firth said in April: "Unfortunately, it might be a bit of a long wait.

"I wouldn't say that it's completely dead in the water, but the way it's going you might be seeing Bridget Jones's granddaughter's story being told by the time we get there."

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Renee Zellweger dutifully helps her granny out of the car as pair go to see new Superman film Man Of Steel together By JADE WATKINS (MAIL ON LINE)

Doting granddaughter: Renee Zellweger helped her elderly grandmother out of the car as the pair went to the movies in Santa Monica on Sunday 

She was busy in the morning spending time with her new boyfriend Doyle Bramhall II.

But Renee Zellweger made sure to fit in some family time on Sunday with her loving grandmother.

The 44-year-old was ever the doting granddaughter helping her elderly gran out of the car as she took her to see a movie in Santa Monica.

The Bridget Jones's Diary star went casual for the outing in her gym gear, showing off her slim figure in a pair of navy blue leggings, a grey T-shirt and a grey hoodie. 

She wore her hair up in a fuss-free pony tail and shielded her make-up free face with sunglasses.

Renee was wearing almost the same ensemble earlier in the day when she went for morning coffee with her boyfriend Doyle Bramhall II in Brentwood.

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Colin Firth And Hugh Grant Not Yet Signed Up For Bridget Jones Threequel (E!)

Contrary to reports, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant are not yet signed up to return to the Bridget Jones franchise, sources confirm to EntertainmentWise.

The actors were reported by a newspaper earlier today to have signed up for the big screen adaptation of Helen Fielding's new novel Mad About The Boy, but insiders close to two British gents have insisted that they are not signed up... at least not at this relatively early stage.

Renee Zelwegger was also tipped to be returning as Bridget Jones herself, though messages to her reps have not yet been responded to


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Renée Zellweger to put on 30lbs to play Bridget Jones for the third instalment of the chick flick (DAILY RECORD)

IT’S time for Renée Zellweger to stock up on doughnuts and cheese pizzas again: Bridget Jones is back.

Just a day after Helen Fielding confirmed the title of the third installment of her book series, Mad About the Boy, I can reveal that British production company Working Title have acquired the rights to the film for £3million.

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Which means Renée, 44, is going to have to put on another 30 lbs if she wants to accurately portray porky Bridget again.

The actress famously gorged on her favourite fatty foods for the first film in 2001, which she received an Oscar nomination for, but hired a nutritionist to help her gain the weight more stably for the sequel in 2004.

Rumours suggest that she and her main co-stars Colin Firth and Hugh Grant are all signed up to take part in Mad About the Boy.

In the new book, Bridget will be “immersed in texting and experimenting with social media”. And basically learning that it is never OK to text while drunk.

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'Bridget Jones' third book to be titled 'Mad About the Boy' Published Tuesday, May 28 2013, 9:16am EDT | By Emma Dibdin (DIGITAL SPY)

The title of the third Bridget Jones book has been revealed.

Today reports that Helen Fielding's follow-up to Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason will be released later this year, and will be titled Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

The third film, in which Renée Zellweger would reprise the title role, was reportedly stalled after Hugh Grant expressed dissatisfaction with the script, and Colin Firth has suggested there could be "a long wait" for another film.

"There is a joy of doing those movies that keeps hope alive," Firth said. "And the story is going in an interesting direction. I just wouldn't say that the movie is imminent."

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Colin Firth has said "there may be a long wait" for a new Bridget Jones movie but don't fret, the third book is on the way. (RTE)

However, speaking to The Chicago Sun Times, Firth - who plays dashing Mark Darcy in the films - was a bit more positive about a new Bridget movie.

But he admitted it will likely take some time before there is any movement on the project.

"Unfortunately, it might be a bit of a long wait," the Oscar winner said. "I wouldn't say that it's completely dead in the water, but the way it's going you might be seeing Bridget Jones's granddaughter's story being told by the time we get there."

He added: "There is a joy of doing those movies that keeps hope alive. And the story is going in an interesting direction. I just wouldn't say that the movie is imminent.

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Colin Firth fears for Bridget Jones sequel (EXPRESS)

COLIN FIRTH fears plans for a third BRIDGET JONES movie have hit a stumbling block and fans face a "bit of a long wait" to see the sequel.

The Oscar winner appeared in 2001 comedy Bridget Jones's Diary opposite Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant, and they all returned for a 2004 follow-up Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Movie bosses are now working on bringing a third film to the big screen in 2014, but Firth has revealed the project has been hit with a raft of delays.

He tells the Chicago Sun-Times, "Unfortunately, it might be a bit of a long wait. I wouldn't say that it's completely dead in the water, but the way it's going you might be seeing Bridget Jones' granddaughter's story being told by the time we get there..

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Colin Firth and Emily Blunt talk accents and ‘Arthur Newman’ By Matt Prigge Published: April 22, 2013 (METRO)

People tend to freak when a Britisher adopts an American accent, or vice versa. Partly, it’s about the supposed athletic ability required to wield a foreign tongue. (And partly, it’s the sadness of hearing someone with a euphonious accent forced to sound like a boring Yank.)

“It’s not that big a deal for us,” confesses Emily Blunt. “We just see it as another character, and taking on another voice.” Blunt stars with fellow countryperson Colin Firth in “Arthur Newman,” as two people running away from their lives who meet up on the road. In the film both actors talk American.

“I’ve rarely done a film in England that doesn’t include an American actress, often doing an English accent,” says Firth.

Blunt points out Renee Zelwegger as Bridget Jones. “I remember when she got the part every woman was up in arms, because everyone thought they were Bridget Jones. She was in the public domain. There was outrage. Then she turned out to do the most amazing job.”

Firth, like Blunt, has a very proper English accent — or at least one would assume. “The accent that people think comes naturally to me is not the one I grew up with,” reveals Firth. “I am from what is known as the ‘west country’ of England.” He says he deliberately lost his native accent when he was first trying to be an actor.

“In England you’re trained to learn what is known in our field as ‘BBC English.’ Basically the idea is that it is a neutral sound from which you can do other things. I think people I went to school with probably got a bit of a shock when they first heard me trying to sound patrician.”

“There’s a tendency in England that if you come from a family that speaks a bit posh that you want to reject that,” says Blunt. “A lot of kids who come from upper middle class family walk around [adopts Cockney-ish accent] talking like that, know wha’ I mean?”

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