Renée Zellweger, Leo Woodall, and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in the fourth "Bridget Jones" film, "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy," streaming on Peacock.

Zellweger spoke exclusively to PEOPLE at the N.Y.C. premiere of the franchise's fourth film on Wednesday, Feb. 12

It’s a joy to report, then, that Mad About the Boy is comfortably the best Bridget Jones outing since Bridget Jones’s Diary. In fact, there’s barely a Silk Cut filter between this and that delightfully goofy first screen incarnation of Helen Fielding’s great singleton. And there is absolutely no nuking Bridget Jones’ fancy new Smeg fridge.