Deliberate mistake: When Bridget lands in the pigsty, the crew members are outside the sty, around three metres from her. Yet when we see the repeated shot of her buttocks in the studio, it is filmed as if she had landed on the camera or very close to it, and at an angle that would preclude it being a close zoom.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
1 deliberate mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, James Faulkner
Continuity mistake: At the end Bridget gets drenched, and when she enters the law offices conference room, she is carrying a small purse with her. When Darcy goes out of the room with Bridget however, the purse is not in her hands, though in the background it does look like the pink purse is lying on the table in front of Darcy's empty seat - with no proper continuity explanation as to how it would be there. (01:35:30 - 01:37:20)
Mark Darcy: Would you step outside please?
Daniel Cleaver: I'm afraid it's not possible.
Mark Darcy: Look are you gonna step outside or do I have to drag you?
Daniel Cleaver: I think you're gonna have to drag me.
Trivia: In the scene where Bridget and Shazzer are on the plane to Thailand, where Shazzer first meets Jed, both she and Jed are reading "The Beach" by Alex Garland, a book about young travellers in Thailand. One of the main characters in the book is also called 'Jed' and many of the scenes featured in the film are mentioned in this book (such as drug trafficking, transsexual Thai prostitutes, etc).
Question: Given that in the book she's lusting after Colin Firth, but the films star Colin Firth as someone else, does anyone know for sure what's being done? Is it someone acting the part of Colin Firth, or will it be another celebrity playing themselves? Given filming's probably finished by now, there must be a definitive answer...
Chosen answer: While there were rumours that a different celebrity was to be used - George Clooney was mooted - according to Renee Zellweger, that sequence is not in the film.
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