--- title: Patrick Dempsey's Kids Saw 'Bridget Jones's Baby' With Him description: The 'Grey's Anatomy' actor and father of three made sure his kids saw him play his newest rom-com character, even if it made him nervous. canonical: https://time.com/4493395/patrick-dempsey-bridget-jones-interview/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T17:23:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:33.439Z og:title: Patrick Dempsey's Kids Saw 'Bridget Jones's Baby' With Him og:description: McDreamy made sure all three of his kids got a chance to see him in the rom-com. og:url: https://time.com/4493395/patrick-dempsey-bridget-jones-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Patrick Dempsey's Kids Saw 'Bridget Jones's Baby' With Him twitter:description: McDreamy made sure all three of his kids got a chance to see him in the rom-com. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Patrick Dempsey Was Appropriately Nervous Watching _Bridget Jones's Baby_ With His Kids > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 14, 2016 5:23 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 14, 2016 5:23 PM UTC Patrick Dempsey is the ultimate cool dad — cool enough, even, to allow his three children (all under the age of 15) to see his new rom-com, [_Bridget Jones’s Diary_](http://time.com/4385829/bridget-jones-baby-trailer-2/?iid=sr-link2), opening Friday. On Tuesday’s _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, the actor [formerly known as McDreamy](http://time.com/3833988/greys-anatomy-patrick-dempsey-interview/?iid=sr-link3) shared that he took his 14-year-old daughter to the London premiere of the [Renée Zellweger romance](http://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/?iid=sr-link1), in which Dempsey plays one point of a love triangle alongside his British foil, Colin Firth. He’s also potentially the father of the titular baby, which could make things, well, awkward. “The subject matter’s a little — in certain places, I was a little nervous. I was more nervous than she was,” he told Kimmel of watching the movie alongside his teenager. He also screened the movie for his nine-year-old sons. “They lasted about ten minutes and they checked out, they didn’t get the movie at all,” he said. Probably for the best. 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