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Warning: This article contains spoilers forBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

“It didn’t want to seem like a manipulative contrivance, you know?”

But this time around, it’s Mr. Wallaker who confesses his feelings, not her.

Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth in ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’.Credit:Alex Bailey/Miramax Films

“Now, she gets somebody who’s turning around and professing their love, stumbling overhiswords for her.

It’s an evolution,” director Michael Morris adds.

But it needs to be there because this is our universe."

BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY – Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mr. Walliker

Chiwetel Ejiofor in ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’.Jay Maidment/Universal Pictures

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“There’s a lot of references and fun that was had going into this.

I wanted something a bit iconic,” Morris says of Roxster’s dive.

Mad About the Boyis streaming now on Peacock before heading into theaters on Feb. 14.

Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones’s Diary

Hugh Grant in ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary ‘.Miramax