How Bridget Jones charmed Gen Z
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Bridget Jones is back in cinemas with her fourth outing Mad About the Boy, 24 years after her film debut. The messy heroine is the quintessential Gen X icon: too much booze, cigarettes, dodgy office romances and an obsession with the thigh gap. So why is she still winning over new fans decades later?
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Further reading:
- How Gen Z fell for Bridget Jones (by Ceci Browning, 24)
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review — our national treasure grows up
Clips: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy/Universal Pictures, Bridget Jones’s Diary/Universal Pictures, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight/CBC, Barbie/Warner Bros.
Photo: Universal Pictures.
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