Bridget Jones star Renée Zellweger took a six-year-long hiatus from acting after completing her film My Own Love Song in 2010. In a recent interview with her Bridget Jones co-star Hugh Grant, the actor explained the long break. When Grant asked her about it, Zellweger stated, "I was sick of the sound of my own voice. When I was working, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, listen to you. Are you sad again, Renée? Oh, is this your mad voice?’ It was a regurgitation of the same emotional experiences."

Zellweger added that she kept herself engaged during her break from films. "I wrote music and studied international law. I built a house, rescued a pair of older doggies, created a partnership that led to a production company, advocated for and fundraised with a sick friend, and spent a lot of time with family and godchildren and driving across the country with the dogs. I got healthy," she said.

Zellweger came back in 2016 with Bridget Jones’s Baby, a "wonderful once-in-a-lifetime project" that she said she could not turn down.

Zellweger, Grant, and Colin Firth are coming back to the franchise with the upcoming film Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. In it, the titular character is struggling with the passing of Firth's character Mark Darcy and the idea of living as a single parent. The cast of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy also includes Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.

The fourth film in the Bridget Jones franchise, Mad About the Boy is slated for a February 14 release in theatres.