With some fans pondering whether Isla originally had more scenes, Deadline put the question to director Michael Morris at the film’s premiere last month, asking: “What happened?”
“Never! No!” Michael responded when asked if extra footage of Isla’s character wound up on the “cutting room floor”.
Instead, he insisted, the Confessions Of A Shopaholic actor “did us a massive favour by basically doing like a sort of elevated cameo for fun”.
“Emma Thompson is in two scenes, Jim Broadbent’s in one scene,” he continued. “People do it because they want to. We wanted someone who looked impossibly glamorous across the street… and Isla very sweetly said yes.”
When Deadline pointed out that Isla’s character is featured more heavily in the novel on which Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is based, Michael pointed out: “The novel has huge [amounts of] strands that never [made it to screen]. We just wanted to sort of respect the idea of the character.”
