Renée Zellweger reveals her 6-Year Hiatus from Hollywood

Renée Zellweger is back! The Oscar winner took a six-year hiatus from Hollywood after her film My Own Love Song was released in 2010. Now she’s opening up in the July issue of British Vogue about why she went off the grid.   “As a creative person, saying no to that wonderful once-in-a-lifetime project is hard. But I was fatigued and wasn’t taking the time I needed to recover between projects, and it caught up with me,” the actress who starred in nearly 20 movies between 2000 and 2010 told the mag. “I got sick of the sound of my own voice: it was time to go away and grow up a bit."   The actress continued to make headlines after her 2011 split with Bradley Cooper and then again when she started dating musician Doyle Bramhall in 2012. But eventually the dust settled and she began to "live a normal life."   "I found anonymity, so I could have exchanges with people on a human level and be seen and heard, not be defined by this image that precedes me when I walk into a room,” she said. “You cannot be a good storyteller if you don’t have life experiences, and you can’t relate to people."   Zellweger returns to the big screen this fall in Bridget Jones’s Baby, co-starring Patrick Dempsey and Colin Firth. When the first two films were released, the actress became famous for gaining and losing pounds to play the part. But Zellweger never understood the big deal.

  "I put on a few pounds,” she said. “I also put on some breasts and a baby bump. Bridget is a perfectly normal weight and I’ve never understood why it matters so much. No male actor would get such scrutiny if he did the same thing for a role."  

Source: Yahoo News



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