Bridget Jones Exclusive: How Helen Fielding Broke the News About Mark Darcy to Colin Firth

How do you tell the leading man of the wildly successful film adaptations of two of your novels that in the third novel his character is no more? If you're Helen Fielding, you break it to him as gently as possible. Fielding says she knew that Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth in Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, couldn't survive to see another happy ending. "That was absolutely inherent from the start," she says of her new book, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. In an ...