![]() You’ve got the longer history with your friends, so more of a shorthand.” “That is the really good thing about getting older. We’d all really been through it, but it was just absolutely lovely to be back together again. “There’d been huge things: people had won Oscars, got married and divorced, and remarried, people had died and fought cancer. When we went back to do the third one, we were all just a bit more ragged, you know? “Because I feel like I’m, well, not really a different person, but I feel like so much life has happened. “Weirdly, I can believe it’s been 20 years,” she says, when asked if it’s hard to comprehend how long it’s been since Bridget Jones first hit cinemas. ![]() “NOW have made it really easy – they’ve given you the same suite in the hotel, the drive in the open top Mercedes, complementary chardonnay, unlimited ice-cream, and enormous pants!”ĭespite “clawing slowly towards the end of lockdown” when we chat, the comedy star – who got involved with The Oxford Revue comedy club while studying Italian and linguistics, later racking up shows at Edinburgh Fringe and becoming a household name with the likes of Smack The Pony and I’m Alan Partridge – is full of wit. They go to the locations and act them out,” she adds. Well certainly for Miranda, fans act out whole episodes. “It’s a bit of a thing, acting out scenes. “That’s the iconic scene from the first film, Bridget and Daniel’s mini-break in Stoke Park Hotel in Buckinghamshire,” says Phillips, who played Bridget’s foul-mouthed best friend Shazza in the hit 2001 movie and sequels. Hotels are also part of the reason for this interview – Phillips has teamed up with streaming service NOW to mark the recent 20th anniversary of Bridget Jones’s Diary, offering fans the chance to win a hotel mini-break just like the one Bridget and Daniel Cleaver had in the movie. It’s a funny twist though, considering hotels are one of the things many of us have really missed this past year. Thankfully, Phillips’s Instagram confirms they all survived the fortnight intact. ![]() “We’ll see who comes out alive!” Phillips jokes when we chat over Zoom, shortly before she set off from London in April. Two weeks cooped up in a hotel room, doing the required quarantine with two of her three sons, Olly, who's 17, and 10-year-old Tom. It’s sunny, the beach is nearby, and lockdown restrictions are a distant memory (well sort of – at the time of writing, Perth just ended a snap three-day lockdown). ![]() SALLY Phillips is currently in Australia, filming comedy-drama How To Please A Woman. ![]()
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