Showbiz I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . Production for the latest Bridget Jones sequel is reportedly causing issues for a number of big name celebrities who live near the filming location.
Cast including Renée Zellweger - who is reprising her role as the titular character - Leo Woodall, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Hugh Grant have been seen filming for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy on the streets of Haverstock and Hampstead. Residents including the likes of Harry Styles and Ricky Gervais are said to have been sent letters requesting that they don’t leave their homes at certain times in order to avoid disruption to filming for the fourth instalment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The move has resulted in “chaos” and “gone down like a lead balloon” according to a source.
“Neighbourhoods with stars such as Harry Styles, Rami Malek, Ricky Gervais and Rowan Atkinson, living there are all getting letters from the production about not interrupting shots,” the told The Sun . They continued: “It’s gone down like a lead balloon with some of them and of course some of the normal people who live and work there.” “The letters have informed them about when filming is taking place and they have been asked to either leave their homes during this time or not to come and go at certain times.
” The Standard has contacted representatives for Working Title Films for comment. Bridget Jones: Mad About.
