Cinematographer Suzie Lavelle is probably best known for her exceptional skill in creating intimate moments between friends and romantic partners in projects like Normal People and Conversations With Friends. So perhaps there was no better project for her to make the leap into franchise filmmaking than Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, especially since director Michael Morris (To Leslie) had wanted to take a more grounded approach to the longtime romantic comedy series.

“I think some of our tastes were already aligned because I’d met him as a fan of his work. And he had seen my work and seen Conversations With Friends. He was interested in this sort of real and grounded approach to Bridget Jones — a more naturalistic approach than the previous films, I suppose,” Lavelle tells Gold Derby in an interview as part of our Meet the Experts: TV Cinematography panel. “And that’s how it came to be.