Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

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).

Trivia: In the film, when Bridget has broken up from Darcy, she is telling someone that she wishes he would turn up at her door, preferably dressed in a wet white shirt. This is a reference to when Colin Firth played Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995), and the shot of him emerging from a swim wearing a flappy wet white shirt made him a massive sex icon to women in their mid-thirties.

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Trivia: In the scene where Bridget and Mark are in the conservatory talking to her parents, the leaves in the background outside do not move at all. On the DVD extras, the editor explains why this happens - she simply forgot to use a wind machine to make it look more lifelike.

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)

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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...

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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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