Renée Zellweger felt a lot of pressure to play Judy Garland
Renée
Zellweger felt a “different sense of responsibility” with her new
movie.
The Judy
star – who plays iconic actress and singer Judy Garland in the biographical
movie – admits there was a lot of “pressure” to perfect her role.
She said:
“It’s a different sense of responsibility that you feel when you play
someone who’s lived or who’s living. There’s certain things that are
non-negotiable that are established on public record and in some ways that’s
helpful because it sets the parameters a bit. And it was. In terms of pressure,
I love her too. I love her and I admire her and I’m in awe of her and … you
carry a sense of hope that you’ll do justice by the representation.”
And the
50-year-old actress wanted to shed a light on Judy’s life.
She added to
talkRADIO: “I loved what Rupert was hoping for this film. To humanise the
experience of the performer and to reveal the truth of the life of a performer
and the cost of performance. It seemed like such a lovely opportunity to shine
a different light on the final chapter of Judy’s life which seems sort of
blanketed and the idea of tragedy.”
