Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant, who starred in the 2001 film Bridget Jones's Diary, discussed how the workplace romance depicted in the movie would be viewed differently today. Zellweger suggested that HR would intervene and re-educate Grant's character, Daniel Cleaver, for exploiting his position of power.
Sleazy-but-charming boss Daniel Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant , is depicted in the 2001 film seducing his junior employee Bridget, a cigarette-smoking 30-something, while working with her at a publishing company., Grant interviewed Zellweger for the February issue of British Hugh Grant as Daniel and Renee Zellweger as Bridget in an office scene from Bridget Jones’s Diary.
The actress suggested HR would now hold a meeting with Cleaver and tell him to end the inappropriate contact.Grant replied: “And Daniel would’ve had to be re-educated.”, Grant suggested that Britain had become “less of a jolly place”.“The clubs of London are shutting. Our local cinemas are shutting. The local wine bar where I met my wife is empty. Isn’t it awful? I can’t bear it,” he added.
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