Sayeh & Galton Flowers, in Flask Walk, Hampstead, will have been serving customers for 20 years as of August 4. So owner Sayeh Rafiei was ecstatic to have film crews in on Thursday (July 11) to shoot the new film, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. Lead actress Renée Zellweger has been spotted around Hampstead and north London since filming started in May.
Sayeh Rafiei outside her flower shop (Image: Handout) The new film tells the story of Bridget Jones following the death of Mark Darcy. She is once again single, and now a middle-aged mother, when her eye is caught by Rockstar, played by 27-year-old Leo Woodall. In recent filming, Flask Walk was temporarily closed during the day, with the florist's shop being the focus.
Ms Rafiei explained that crews started filming from 7am, which lasted for some hours. Sayeh & Galton Flowers, after its Christmas makeover for Bridget Jones (Image: Handout) She said: “This sort of thing takes very long, for maybe only 30 seconds. The preparation was very good and they were a bunch of very professional people.
” It’s understood that the area had a Christmas makeover, despite it currently being summer, and the whole road was used. The owner continued “I was very excited. First of all this year August 4, it’s my 20th business anniversary.
It was brilliant to be a part of the movie. It was a very nice fit to be part of it.” She added that she was “very much” a fan of the Bridget Jones film series and is fond of all the actors and.
