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.”