"Before the reveal Sally Phillips, Renee Zellweger and Helen Fielding. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images It seems really cute, was Zellweger's verdict. I mean, it's really so weird, but it's really cute. Seeing herself immortalised in this way was not something you expect to happen, she said, especially while alive. Her ambitions when making the first film 24 years ago had been more modest: I was just hoping I wouldn't get fired."
"The statue joins the likes of Paddington, Harry Potter and Charlie Chaplin as part of Westminster council's Scenes in the Square scheme to further cement the location's credentials as a cinema hub. It is home to four multiplexes and the setting of most of London's red-carpet premieres. A pink carpet was laid in honour of bronze Bridget, who had been planted in a bed of plastic fuchsia flowers and draped with a purple silk sheet that required considerable tugging when time came."
Bridget Jones is depicted in a creased miniskirt and gaping cardigan in central London, clutching her diary and a pen. The bronze lists alcohol units, cigarettes and calories as zero and a weight of 31 stone; Sally Phillips said the character has no intention of losing any of it. Phillips, Helen Fielding and Renée Zellweger attended the Leicester Square unveiling. Fielding created the character in a newspaper column 30 years ago and her novels have been translated into more than 40 languages. The four Bridget Jones films have a combined box office of $900m. The statue joins Westminster council's Scenes in the Square cinema displays in Leicester Square. A pink carpet, plastic fuchsia flowers and a purple silk sheet accompanied the reveal. Zellweger called the statue "really cute" and said she did not expect to be immortalised; Phillips noted the statue holds stationery rather than cigarettes or wine, reflecting reduced alcohol for the character in the fourth film.
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