Renee Zellweger is such an actress, she has a non-aggressive beauty, her appearance is not obvious, she can be portrayed as any person, she is good at hiding in the role she plays, so that you can't remember the big single young woman in "BJ's Single Diary" crying and singing "All by myself" in the gym, and the star criminal in "Chicago" who is charming and seductive is the same actress, and now she is hiding in Judy Garland's hunchback, black hair and pill alcohol. Speak out for the tortured female star. The best thing about Renee is that no matter what the role, her performance has a persuasiveness, a sense of closeness, which will inspire your empathy and resonate.
In the years when she disappeared, not many people thought of her, and when she came back, people found that she was really old and began to taunt, but she knew her thoughts and state, she had always been a person who knew how to seize opportunities, and also seized the opportunity to protect herself in the face of depression, she did not become Judy Garland, but could become an Oscar queen by playing her.
Whoever is old does not change, she has changed, and she is very happy
At the age of 50, Renee Zellweger won best actress in nine world-famous awards including oscars, Golden Globes, British Academy Film Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards for her biopic Judy, and numerous nominations. Before that, the American actress from Texas had been depressed for many years, and now she stands in the spotlight of the world stage with the strength of her healing, holding the honor she deservedly won. Renee Zellweger choked up with excitement when she received the Screen Actors Guild award for best actress, saying that she would dedicate the award to her legendary Hollywood actress Judy Garland, who said that acting made her more humane and empathetic, "If you are lucky, you can make history more known to the world."
"Judy" focuses on Judy Garland's last performance, telling the heroine's most tragic and downcast period. She was Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz", a childhood idol of a generation, a song "Over the Rainbow" has been passed down to this day; she also returned to Hollywood with "The Birth of a Star" and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress; but the damage to her health and spirit by the big studios was profound, and the female star who could not get rid of drug dependence and mental bad conditions eventually became an "unreliable person" in Hollywood, living a life of being caught in a cave.
Stills from the movie Judy
Shortly after the story begins, judy Garland went to London to "pan for gold" in order to fight for custody of her children. She didn't know that the three-week hotel concert would be the last performance of her life, nor did she know that her confrontation with fate was only in vain. Renee Zellweger hides in the body of this character, dyed black blonde hair, arches the "little hunchback", and occasionally exudes a mentally unstable and ethereal look, using the performance to tell the pain and suffering that is not written in the script. In the final performance, Judy's performance is extremely bad, dependence on drugs and alcohol, the exhaustion of not being able to sleep for a long time, and the anxiety of missing her children, all of which translate into her fear of the stage. But after singing "Over the Rainbow", she still felt the audience's love for her, and before the picture darkened, she asked, "You won't forget me!" Right? Rolling Stone described Renee Zellweger's performance as a miracle, saying that she "sang with her heart, showed her scarred soul, and finally achieved a state of elegance with her surging acting skills."
However, earlier when the official poster for the film was released, the background light set off the side face of an actress, and no one recognized it as Renee Zellweger.
Poster for the movie Judy
Such a side face is neither the silly big sister in "BJ's Single Diary", nor the Hollywood sweetie in "Mr. Sweetheart", nor the ambitious murderer in "Chicago", but an old but still stubborn side face. Every shot in the world is very critical of wrinkles and years, especially for female stars, in the years since her comeback, Renee Zellweger has seen too many evaluations of her age, skin care, a so-called free speech and tolerant and open world has not let her go, people exclaim that they can't see her at all, and laugh at her over-plastic surgery and ruin her face. This kind of siege day, presumably Judy Garland has also experienced a lot.
Renee once responded helplessly: "Maybe I don't look the same, but who doesn't change when they get old?" Ha! I've changed, but I'm happy now. "Maybe that's the strength she slowly cultivated when she ran away from Hollywood, didn't stay quiet for many years." As an actor, acting and winning awards is the right thing to do, and the rest is just the lace that people talk about after dinner, which will soon dissipate into the public's goldfish memory as new gossip emerges. Renee Zellweger is one of the most immersive actors in acting at the moment, and every time she performs, she is also building empathy for the audience, which is the important thing, the thing that will not be forgotten.
She was tired and tired of hearing her own voice
After the release of My Own Love Song in 2010, Renee Zellweger disappeared. It's a road movie about self-healing, and when the characters in the story reach the end, Renee chooses to embark on her own path of healing. It wasn't until 2019 that Renee openly openly revealed that she was facing a depression crisis at that time, but fortunately, she still had a choice to stop herself from becoming the next "Judy Garland". "I didn't take good care of myself, I worked one after another, I was tired, I was tired of hearing my own voice. My therapist made me realize that I spend 99% of my life as a public figure and that real life is only a small part. ”
Once Renee Zellweger met her friend Salma Hayek at the airport, and the mexican star saw through her exhaustion and told her that a real rose wouldn't bloom all year round unless it was a plastic flower. Renee also realized that she had actually been pretending to be okay, pretending that she could be a working machine with no emotion and eternal power, after all, there were so many people constantly persuading in her ear that the opportunity could not be lost, and you would regret not taking this play. These words are almost identical to what Louis Meyer said on the set of The Wizard of Oz when she persuaded and threatened Judy Garland. But Renee finally plucked up the courage to say no, she knew that what she needed more than hard brace was to "get away from the hustle and bustle and return to inner growth" in order to energetically return to the acting career she loved.
Stills from the movie BJ Single Diary 3
In 2016, Renee returned with the iconic film BJ's Single Diary 3, and although Hugh Grant refused to return and replaced the BJ Iron Triangle with actors, the reunion of Renee Zellweger and Colin Feith set a new UK box office record for the sequel, which was 12 years away. At this year's BAFTA Awards, Renee stepped down from the stage after receiving the Best Actress Award when she met Hugh Grant, who was waiting on the stage. The latter congratulated Renee before taking the stage to present the award, saying, "Well done, Jones (Renee played the older young woman Britchette Jones in BJ's Single Diary)! This year's movie is so good that I can't help voting. If it weren't for the attempt to prevent Colin Feith from winning the prize, I wouldn't have voted. At this moment, although Colin Feith was not present, the loyal fans of the BJ Single Diary series were already screaming madly inside, shouting that life was complete. This is the power of popular culture, a few simple words, with a stem, can achieve the effect of four or two strokes.
Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant
From "BJ's Single Diary 3" to "Judy", Renee Zellweger has only spent three years, and she has proved that she can both mobilize the enthusiasm of the audience and become the unassailable old and widowed young woman next to you, and can also burn her own singing voice charm and become a dazzling actress on stage. After many years of silence and then returning, she did not lose a city and a pool, but became the object of everyone's admiration. Another admirable thing is that her singing passages in "Judy" are all live voices.
"It was the idea of director Rupert Gould, who, after all, is a stage director who spends most of his life with performers and gaining a deep understanding of the relationship between actors and audiences. After years of observation, he felt that the interaction between the actors and the audience had a magic power, and he felt that if we did not sing live, it would not be real enough. He just wanted everything he could capture in that moment. What's more, the relationship we recorded between this person and the audience is something that people talk about, so the real feedback from the live real singing is also important. I'm thankful to the director for doing that. ”
In fact, Renee Zellweger is not a professional musical theater actress, but presumably her wonderful performance in "Chicago" also made Rupert full of confidence in her live singing. Before Chicago, Renee didn't understand musicals at all, and she was confused the first time she saw the script, and it was hard to imagine what it would be like for a person walking down the street a hundred times and saying "guns, guns, But then director Rob Marshall persuaded her that she would regret not acting in the film for the rest of her life by virtue of her charisma. So Renee entered the crew and trained for several months at the Broadway bootcamp to finally have a stunning finished film effect. "There was no day and night when I was shooting, but now I realize that I was very happy at that time. We both worked hard, but it didn't feel like we were working at all, and I just remember being happy. ”
Before becoming BJ, even the original author was not optimistic about her
Renee Zellweger graduated in English literature from the University of Texas at Austin and had ambitions to become a journalist, but the acting class she took in college changed the trajectory of her life. Renee grew up in a small town in Texas, a town so small that she didn't even have a TV or theater, so she didn't even watch her first movie in college. And her acting talent was also excavated because she took acting classes after going to college. After graduation, she began to make cameo appearances in some local low-budget films, following the blonde's upbringing, and then naturally starred in the horror film "Texas Chainsaw Killer 4" and was also evaluated by Vanity Fair magazine as "the scream queen after Jamie Lee Curtis". What really made her famous in Hollywood was "Mr. Sweetheart" with Tom Cruise, who won a lot of praise for her beautiful appearance and natural performance. Brother Atang once boasted: "It is she who reveals the most core human brilliance of this movie." It also stirred up her fighting spirit to prove her acting talent. She began to take on serious topics like "Nurse Betty" and hit the film festival project, which won her first Golden Globe trophy. However, when the award was awarded, the camera did not find her, because she was hiding in the toilet, trying to erase the "lipstick mark on her teeth"; it was not a coincidence that the book was awarded to her, that is, Hugh Grant, who later collaborated on "BJ's Single Diary".
Stills from the movie "Mr. Sweetheart"
Later, the script of "BJ's Single Diary" was placed in front of her, the script was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name, the story was derived from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", and it was integrated into the current social situation of the survival of older young women, which was a relaxed and pleasant film that reflected reality at the same time. Renee knew that she had to win the role of Britchett Jones, which was a rare challenge in her life, and eventually she beat many famous actresses, including Kate Winslet, and became the BJ that became known to audiences around the world.
However, Bridget Jones's setting is a chubby, unassuming, and messy young single young woman, and Renee Zellweger at that time was still ready to take magazine covers and hard photos to portray the real beautiful appearance. The producer told Renee that you were too thin; the British media expressed concern; even the original author, Helen Fielding, objected to the selection, and allegedly quit the crew in protest. At this time, Renee showed amazing determination, came to England early to receive vocal training, experience local life, in order to conquer the audience with a pure London accent; also went undercover for three weeks in a local publishing house to prepare for the role; more importantly, in order to get infinitely close to the character body of the micro-fat world, she opened her belly to eat high-calorie food, and finally fattened herself into Brichet Jones herself.
Movie "BJ's Single Diary"
In media acclaim, her portrayal of BJ was described as "extremely cute, especially real, and accomplished a little miracle". And this lighthearted, high-grossing romantic comedy miraculously earned her her first Oscar and first British Academy Film Award nomination. Although Renee lost a chance to appear on the cover of a magazine to play BJ, her box office performance and award nominations earned her more international fame and many opportunities to appear on the cover of magazines.
Since then, she has quickly sorted out her body shape and state, becoming the most beautiful female criminal in "Chicago", both the careful thinking of loving vanity and the funnyness of desire greater than IQ, and she has played this ambitious woman vividly. And again nominated for the Oscar and the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress.
Stills from the movie "Chicago"
After that, she won an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in "Cold Mountain", which overshadowed the heroine Nicole Kidman for a while.
Tips.
Her father is Swiss and her mother is Norwegian, and this Texan lady with Nordic ancestry looks big, but is actually only one meter six tall, and the actor who is lining the play is tall.
There are many famous ex-boyfriends, including Kim Carey and Bradley Cooper, and the subjects of the scandal include John Krasinski and George Clooney.
With Kim Carey and with Bradley Cooper
He married country singer Kenny Chesney Lightning in 2006 and announced his divorce four months later.
He worked with Tommy Hilfiger to raise funds for the Breast Health Institute. "Because I have been close to people who have fought breast cancer and witnessed that kind of suffering, I am very enthusiastic about supporting all breast health education and charity."
Written by/Dojo Arashi
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