Because of [Judy], Renee Zellweger is back in the mainstream of Hollywood attention, long gone.
At the beginning of the millennium, Renee was both a recognized professional in romantic comedy and a work that competed for the Oscars, and the popularity and strength were extremely popular.
Until 2010, almost overnight, she disappeared from Hollywood out of thin air. This "intermission" took her six years, and in Hollywood, let alone six years, there were countless people who could not afford to delay for six hours.
Where has she been in the last six years? Is it willfulness to leave Hollywood for a while, or is there a soberness in the mind that ordinary people cannot reach? After her return, is she still familiar with the Texas beauty, or is she reborn, like a rebirth?
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Run away from Hollywood
"A public figure who doesn't have any secrets can't disappear if he wants to. But secretly, this kind of thing will never easily defeat a girl. ”
For Renee Zellweger, 2010 was her inflection point.
Before that, her strength in Hollywood was obvious to all, in terms of the popularity of her works, including the "BJ's Single Diary", which was popular around the world in the millennium; on acting, there was "Chicago", which was very good at singing, and there was also "Cold Mountain", which competed with Nicole Kidman.
[Cold Mountain] won Zellweger the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 76th Academy Awards
But 2010 became Zellweger's Waterloo year.
Two of her film performances this year can only be described as bleak, one is [My Own Love Song], which is said to have cost $16 million to produce, and disappeared after the premiere of the Tribeca Film Festival, losing all her money.
Road movie [My Own Love Song], Douban 6.8, IMDb 5.8
One was [Case No. 39], which was filmed in 2006 and staged around the world in 2009, only to return to North American theaters in 2010.
Because of this movie, film critics seem to have collectively forgotten how beautiful Zellweger once was, and instead ridiculed her for her "uncertain future", not without meanness, "Cruel Hollywood, will not leave fresh and lovely roles to actresses up to 40 years old".
Exorcism [Case No. 39], Douban 6.8, IMDb 6.2
[My Own Love Songs] and [Case No. 39] are concentrated eruptions of this "absence," and in essence, several of Zellweger's works, [Love Touchdown] (2008), [Aparusa Town] (2008), and [Newcomer] (2009), have been tepid in response.
In [Newcomer], Zellweger plays a somewhat "energetic" urban strong woman
Compared with the full victory period at the beginning of the new millennium, it was completely her trough.
Zellweger was very tough, the response to the play was not good, and she decided to "run away from Hollywood". This exodus, that is, six years, from 2010 to 2016, Zellweger stopped filming, not a single work was performed.
90% of the actors have experienced the trough, and 90% of the actors will not say that they disappear and disappear like Zellweger.
Hollywood's normal is that the role pushes the actor away, a film has not yet been completed, and there are countless scripts waiting in line behind it, which shows that the actor is just red. Therefore, most actors, even if there is a trough period, even if they play a flutter, play a scolded one, and go to the golden plum every year, they will not easily retreat.
Because once you lose exposure, it means that your hard-earned heel and the circle of friends will be shaken.
Hollywood never lacks heat, let alone six years without showing up, even if it is six months, it is enough to make the audience forget a person.
It is precisely because of this that Zellweger, who dares to say and go, is definitely one of the few "outliers" in a circle where fame and fortune are supreme.
She is indeed such a unique person that few actors will "be themselves" like her, grinning so much.
In fact, not only in the decision to "run away from Hollywood", but also in her performance.
This can be seen from the roles played by Zellweger, who more or less have her shadow on them. The most like her should be Ruby in [Cold Mountain], simply a copy of her, a typical American Southern woman, with thick lines, informality, and perseverance in her bones, and like Scarlett In [Gone with the Wind], she always believes that "tomorrow is a new day".
Maybe because Zellweger was born in Texas, he was born with a pair of "hard bones" of American Southern women.
Before she went to college, her father was unemployed, and she paid as a waiter in a strip club, saving up for her tuition.
Later, she drove a red Honda CRX alone, carried a suitcase and a dog, came to Los Angeles alone, and began to work as an actress. Because he was not from a science class, Zellweger almost relied on this "hard bone" and fell all the way.
Acting [BJ's Single Diary], Sheng Sheng practiced his American accent into Anglo;
Acting [Chicago] is more difficult, the film is adapted from Bob Fox's classic musical, the proportion of singing and dancing passages is quite large, Zellweger has no professional singing and dancing skills, and catherine Zeta-Jones, who plays her as a teenager, is a british tap dance champion, in order to keep up with Zeta Jones's rhythm, how much she has paid outside the play, only she knows.
[Chicago]
But sometimes this is the case, between hard work and success, there is often a little element of luck.
Zellweger at the beginning of the millennium and Zellweger at the beginning of the millennium were both hard-working, but there was a difference between better luck before and bad luck later.
Since he was in a low valley and could not find a state, "leaving" was the most comfortable and most decent choice for Zellweger at that time.
"Semi-retired" life
"My counselor told me that I spend 99% of my life being a public figure, and that my authenticity and self are minimal. I wanted to live a life where I didn't have to be busy all the time, I didn't have to schedule my plans until two years later, and I wanted to find a little inspiration in silence. ”
In 2016, Zellweger returned to the big screen and starred in the sequel to "BJ's Single Diary", "Single Diary: Good Pregnancy Strikes", when she told how her "semi-retirement" days came through.
She explained why she decided to "leave Hollywood": "I was tired, and I couldn't let myself go between projects. I even started to get tired of my voice, and that's when I thought maybe I should leave the circle for a while, let go of my job, and give myself a little time to grow. ”
[Single Diary: A Good Pregnancy Strikes]
Zellweger's so-called emptiness is not simply a rest, but also about her preparation process for the role and the performance. Because the necessary preparation is insufficient, simply put down the work and spend all the time on precipitating the self, which is not only hard, but also sober, and strict with yourself.
As she herself puts it, "If an actor doesn't have enough life experience to empathize with the lives of others, she can't tell a good story." ”
However, Zellweger also admitted that this "exodus" time also has regrets, she missed some scripts and opportunities that may only be encountered once in her life, as for which movies, she did not say, we have no way of knowing.
There are pros and cons to everything, and there's no way. After "leaving", Zellweger also gradually changed from a familiar face in Hollywood to an unknown person.
In 2014, she made brief public appearances for Elle's "Hollywood Women" event, and as soon as she stepped onto the red carpet, the surrounding photojournalists whispered, "Who is this person?" I don't know. ”
This was followed by a storm of public opinion that caught her off guard, and the Internet was full of discussions about her, "She failed plastic surgery", "What is she", "Did she come out to attract attention", you must know that social media has never lacked harsh words.
What about Zellweger? Still as tough as you want, he responded, "No one has ever seen me look like a 40-year-old anyway." ”
It is unlikely that Zellweger does not care about these gossip at all, she just does not care so much, or that in the "exodus period", she has taken the fingering of outsiders very lightly.
She said that her life is very healthy, regular work and rest, exercise on time, do not need to be mentally exhausted, and force herself to do this and that.
Zellweger didn't answer the question of "whether there was a plastic surgery," but as we can see, her face at that time was indeed a little different from what we remember in the millennium.
It may be a little rude to say so, but the truth is so, Zellweger has never been an actress who eats by looks, it can be seen that the "exodus period" of her, her face is peaceful and calm, she also said that human aging is a natural process, mortals will experience, plastic fake flowers are put for ten years and eight years, but it has no breath of life, since it is an irreversible normal life, calm acceptance is good.
It can be seen that during the period of "exodus", Zellweger's "hard bones" have a little more transparency and gentleness.
As for people, it is difficult to stay awake and sane at all times, such as facing emotions.
Zellweger is like this, her ego, her transparency, her "hard bones", and the feelings she meets are all counted.
During the days when she was in a slump, there was a scandal with Bradley Cooper. At that time, Cooper's career was just booming, zellweger decided to concentrate on being Cooper's backing, putting his plans for the future on hold for the time being, and even moving his family from New York to Los Angeles in order to be closer to Cooper.
But even if she works so hard, the relationship between the two people is still quietly terminated in a sentence of "inappropriate".
[Project 39]
After the emotional entanglement with Cooper ended, Zellweger got mixed up with Doyle Bramhall II, who was engaged in music.
They met each other in the 1990s, and by Zellweger's "exodus period," Bram hall had just divorced his ex-wife, and the two got closer.
Although people are complex animals, Bram Hall, you really can't think of any other word to describe him besides "scumbag".
During the time Zylweger spent with him, he not only paid a total of $85,000 in legal expenses for Bram Hall's divorce lawsuit with his ex-wife, but also paid off four to five thousand dollars of credit card bills for him every month, in other words, Bram Hall has been living in Zellweger's house since 2012.
The outside world has long been criticized for their relationship, and everyone is not worth it for Zellweger, but Zellweger has been defending Bram Hall, saying that the money to pay off the credit card bill is what she "lent" to Bram Hall.
Alas, how did such a tough and self-centered woman get confused in front of her feelings?
Emotional matters, no matter how "bystanders are clear" by others, it is difficult to pull out the people who are in it. Fortunately, Zellweger has finally figured it out recently, and earlier news came out that she had separated from Bram Hall.
The confused egg in the feelings, it is time to find their own "hard bones".
Kill back, back to the top
"Garland should have had a better life, [Judy] this movie, and let's look up to her presence when we have sympathy for her." It is too difficult for others to achieve her achievements. ”
In 2016, Renee Zellweger returned. Once the "BJ's Single Diary" made her the darling of the millennial romantic comedy world, now its sequel [Single Diary: The Coming of a Good Pregnancy] gives her another chance.
The comeback of Zellweger is menacing, and everyone can see how powerful her ambition to "kill everything" in Hollywood is.
The "exodus period" admittedly made her hard bones become docile and soft, but it was tempered into a soft finger, and now she has become indestructible, and the more courageous she is.
After her comeback, Zellweger starred in arguably the most weighty work of her career, [Judy], and she became the Golden Age singer judy Garland. In fact, she is not the most god-like actress of Garland, but she is definitely suitable.
[Judy] is set in Garland's 46 years old, and now Zellweger is 50 years old, and the two of them are almost the same age (very sorry, it is very impolite to talk about the age of the actress); Garland and Zellweger, who have starred in classic song and dance films, is objectively appropriate.
Subjectively, Zellweger, who has experienced the trough period, will better understand the taste of Garland's chaotic life when he is in the trough.
The fates of these two men do have some kind of interconnected coincidence.
In 1968, Judy Garland was invited by producer Bernard Del fondt to london for a five-week concert. Half a century later, Zellweger also received an invitation from London. When she went to audition and audition, she knew she "couldn't go away", and sure enough, director Rupert Gould gave her the responsibility of "resurrecting Judy Garland on the big screen".
In the movie, Garland says that London is her second home, and the city is also Zellweger's blessed land, and that [BJ's single diary] was filmed in London, but who would have thought that the big girl with British foul language was a Texan.
This is Zellweger's acting methodology, she does not become a character, but lets the role and the self have some kind of organic fusion.
As for the character, she is the interpreter, the narrator and the spectator. This time in [Judy], it was the same, although she starred in a biopic, she did not let herself become Judy Garland, but integrated her understanding of life's obedience into the last days of Garland's life.
Before booting up, she found a lot of information related to Garland, and like an investigator, she looked for clues from between the lines of history, and pieced together the multi-faceted and three-dimensional Garland.
Before starring in the film, Zellweger knew garland as an icon, and she had no idea that this icon would be unemployed, criticized, homeless, and desperate for the custody of the child with her ex-husband. She understands all these chicken feathers, and she understands them all too well.
[Judy] has a particularly poignant scene, about Garland after a performance, originally thought that there would be a lot of fans "squat SD" (refers to some audiences who are very fond of the performers, after the performance, at the back door of the theater dedicated to the entry and exit of the cast members, waiting for the performers to appear, have a short conversation, or ask for an autograph or something), but there is only a pair of gay couples in the cold wind, seeing her appear, excited incoherently.
When Zellweger performed this clip, he first did not hide the loneliness in his eyes, but almost instantaneously regained his luster, and smiled sincerely at the two people.
This kind of moment, in the six years that she disappeared in Hollywood, must have experienced it, and no one recognized her everywhere she went, and in Hollywood, where the perpetual motion machine was like a person, the once big star had become an insignificant little person.
Just when she accepted this normalcy, perhaps one day on a street corner in the store, someone called out her name and expressed her love to her helplessly, and her mood at that time must have been very similar to Garland in the movie.
This is Zellweger's cleverness and difference, the actors next to him in the biopic, most of them will make themselves infinitely close to the character itself, but she is like a double reed, the movie that has seen the world floating in the past red, is Judy Garland, but also Renee Zellweger.
But in any case, Garland or Garland, Zellweger or Zellweger, like the old proverb, no two snowflakes are the same.
[Judy] this movie, will make people give birth to a wonderful association, if Garland has a little Zellweger's "hard bones", her life, will not be different?
Garland was made popular by MGM tycoon L. Garland. B. Meyer, who once paved the way for Zellweger is the now-infamous Harvey Weinstein, Garland does not dare to say half a "no" word to Meyer, does not dare to have a trace of disobedience; Zellweger can make Weinstein respectful to her, and even hears Weinstein mention her name when he blackmails other actresses and makes non-point demands, saying that "Renee Zellweger has also lowered her body to please me", and can directly scold, "Bastard, what rumors".
Or in the trough period, Garland can be like Zellweger, but also temporarily away from the hustle and bustle, Taoguang to raise obscurity, so as not to let the health become her life's burden. Or emotionally, forget it... Emotionally, neither Garland nor Zellweger knows how to read people.
In a way, Zellweger in reality does play out another life that Garland might have. An actor from a non-science class, relying on a fearless persistence, he "bumped" into his own world in Hollywood.
The performance has unique characteristics, and even the qualifications of many professional actors are difficult to reach the level of singing and dancing.
Middle-aged frustrated, not reluctantly not exquisite, dashing and sprinkling to go away, wait until the accumulation is enough, the opportunity is enough, the wings are spread, rise up and re-emerge from the jianghu, let the chasing light that once abandoned her in the shadows shine back on her.
From success to "rebirth", what supports Zellweger is always her "hard bones".
"Tomorrow is a new day."
Renee Zellweger, good luck.