Texas-born Renée Zellweger is not any one-trick pony.
While arguably one in all her most well-known roles is Bridget Jones, she did win an Oscar for her supporting position as Ruby Thewes in Cold Mountain (2003), and starred in flicks Down with Love (2003), Miss Potter (2006), Cinderella Man (2005) and as Judy Garland in Judy (2019).
The now 54-year-old actress has been engaged to comic Jim Carrey, and was briefly married to singer Kenny Chesney in 2005.
Zellweger’s character of Bridget is one which has been analysed and picked aside by common tradition over the a long time – notably over the way in which the movie dealt along with her character’s physique picture.
Director and author Richard Curtis, who can also be well-known for his movie Love Actually, determined to backtrack on his therapy of feminine characters and admitted fats jokes are “no longer funny”.
Curtis made the remarks whereas fielding questions from his personal daughter Scarlet in the course of the The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
“I remember how shocked I was five years ago when Scarlett said to me, ‘You can never use the word ‘fat’ again.’ Wow, you were right. In my generation calling someone chubby [was funny] – in Love Actually there were jokes about that,” he stated.
“Those jokes aren’t any longer funny.”
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