Things You Never Noticed About Bridget Jones' Diary Until Now

For the majority of Bridget Jones' Diary, Bridget is infatuated with her boss, Daniel Cleaver. Her dreams come true when he begins sending her suggestive emails at work, before eventually grabbing her bum in an elevator — super romantic, huh?

Re-watching the film today, it's hard not to cringe at this uncomfortable and inappropriate workplace "flirtation." In fact, it could easily be described more as sexual harassment than flirting, and author Helen Fielding agreed. In an interview on Desert Island Discs, Fielding confessed, "The level of sexism that Bridget was dealing with, the hand on the bum in so many of the scenes [made it] quite shocking for me to see how things have changed" (via The Guardian).

In fact, in 2018 during the #MeToo movement, Fielding wrote a new excerpt of Bridget's diaries for The Times. She wrote, as Bridget, "I just accepted that part and parcel of having a job was that my boss would stare freely at my breasts, not know my name, and ask me to put a tight dress on to make an idiotic speech."