Hugh Grant was skeptical of Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones

quot;A Texan playing a British character? It did seem like a stretch," the actor said. Hugh Grant says that Renée Zellweger sounded like Princess Margaret when she was first cast as Bridget Jones. "The Undoing" actor who played caddish Daniel Cleaver alongside Texan-born Zellweger in the hugely popular flick admitted that he was initially skeptical of the unusual casting.

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