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Fred Duval/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — For fans of the beloved romantic comedy, there’s a happy ending for Bridget Jones’ Diary co-stars Hugh Grant and his onscreen love, Renée Zellweger.

“I love Renée. Uh, she’s one of the few actresses I haven’t fallen out with,” Grant confessed on the SirusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. The actor adds, “…[W]e got on very well together and, we still exchange long emails.”

The pair not only starred in the 2001 hit, but also its successful follow-ups Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in 2004 and 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby.

Grant adds of the email exchanges between he and Zellweger, “Hers in particular, at least 70 pages each, interesting stuff, but quite hard to decipher.”

He adds of the two-time Oscar winner, “she’s a properly good egg and a genius.”

Grant’s affection for Zellweger also extends to her work. “Did you see her…Judy Garland? About as good as acting gets,” he declared, referring to Zellweger’s Oscar-winning performance in last year’s biopic, Judy.

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Disney+(LOS ANGELES) — Fans are still freaking out about Rosario Dawson’s debut as former Jedi Ahsoka [ah-SOH-kah] Tano in the latest episode Disney+’s The Mandalorian — and she says they have an unknown fan to thank. 

Way back in 2017, a Twitter user posted a now-deleted split-screen photo that showed Dawson hugging her Shattered Glass co-star Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in two of the Star Wars prequels.  Next to it was an image of Ahsoka and her master Akakin from the animated Clone Wars series. 

In the new issue of Vanity Fair, Dawson says when she saw the pic, “I retweeted back and I was like, ‘Absolutely, yes please’ and ‘#AhsokaLives.'”

Long story short, her tweet caught the attention of the Clone Wars producers, with the casting idea years later making its way to The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau, who knew Dawson personally.

Dawson, an admitted Star Wars fangirl, confessed she was “freaking out” during the audition, “trying to play it cool, but I was sweating.”

Dawson got the part she loved, and the rest is history — or, as she puts it, “[I]t just felt like the Force was at play.”

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David Lee / Netflix(NEW YORK) —  (NOTE LANGUAGE) Colman Domingo is sharing a powerful scene from Chadwick Boseman’s last film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

In the August Wilson adapted feature, Domingo plays Cutler, one of Ma Rainey’s band members. Colman says he experienced an emotional “moment” on set with Boseman, who plays Levee, after Cutler tells the story of a Black pastor being confronted by a group of white men.

“And then Chad comes in,” Colman tells ABC Audio. “And he stopped in the middle of some words… which was about God’s will and basically why do terrible things happen to people who believe. It touched him deeply, whatever it was.”

Colman says he didn’t want the scene to be cut so he started yelling at Boseman to, “‘Tell me, tell me, tell me!'”

“And he finally exploded with those lines, “God hates n***** as much in his heart. God takes n***** wishes and throws them in the garbage. God don’t care about your Black a**,'” he recalls Chad saying. 

“And that strikes fear in the heart of Cutler because it’s… like, ‘What if he’s right?,'” Coleman continues. “And all Cutler can do is… throw blows at him. So we go to blows [and] George [C. Wolfe] calls ‘Cut!” And we looked at each other and we just started crying and holding each other.”

“And we were not only crying and holding each other as Levee and Cutler, but it was Chad and Colman,” he explains. “And I think it was those things that touch us as Black men in the world.”

Although Colman notes that he and Boseman are “very hopeful people…[who] believe in humanity” he admits he’s not always sure.

“But I think there’s also that little question… in the back of [our] mind that hurts us deeply to the core: ‘What if it’s all a lie?'” Colman adds.  

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom premieres on Netflix December 18.