"I'm still looking for something...more extraordinary than that."
Diehards may have been initially miffed at her casting, but Renée Zellweger was crucial to the movie's success. She's boundlessly charming as
Bridget Jones, gaining 20 pounds to play the British singleton who falls for Hugh Grant and (eventually) Colin Firth. From her appalling bad public
speeches to
lip-synching to Sad F.M. songs in her pajamas, Zellweger carries the film on her (still slender) shoulders.