We like her just the way she is.
The first Bridget Jones film was a true Y2K pop culture phenomenon. Released in 2001, the film captured both the good and the bad of the era. Now, as Bridget returns to our screens for a fourth installment, it seems that Renée Zellweger can’t help but nod to the fashions of that time. Her latest look for the Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy press tour may not have screamed Bridget—but it did scream Y2K.
Posing for photos with her castmates outside of London's iconic Tower Bridge, Zellwegger wore a pair of black leather capri pants by Hermès. The Y2K-coded pants, which featured a center seam, cut off just below the knee. She wore them with a black belt and an all-black ensemble: a chic turtleneck, a blazer with rolled sleeves, black Persol sunglasses, and a pair of black Christian Louboutin pumps.
She wore her hair in a low ponytail with strands falling around her face—although she recently debuted a daring Bowie-esque pixie cut, she soon switched things up with long extensions at a recent Bridget Jones premiere.
Zellwegger’s edgy leather capris are not her first nod to Bridget’s Y2K roots on this press tour. At the London premiere earlier this week, the actress wore a slinky, sleeveless pink gown sourced from Pierre Balmain’s fall 2000 haute couture archive. At another premiere in New York, she opted for a sheer black lace gown with an asymmetrical shoulder design and a daring thigh-high slit in a nod to her original Bridget Jones premiere LBD back in 2001.
The upcoming Bridget Jones fourquel picks up with Bridget after the death of Mark Darcy. She is now a single mom dealing with grief and the practicalities of raising two young children. The film follows her journey as she re-enters the dating world meeting two very different love interests in the form of One Day's Leo Woodhall and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
As Zellwegger recently told ITV, she couldn’t have been happier to step back into Bridget’s relatable shoes. “There’s something about the essence of Bridget that she looks at things with a little bit of a cheeky sense of humor and I think it’s inspiring isn’t it because even in difficult moments that’s always been her way,” she said.