Renée Zellweger reveals why she took a six-year break from acting
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The ‘Bridget Jones’ star was on hiatus from 2010 to 2016. However, the Bridget Jones star said she was actually quite busy during her break from acting. “I wrote music and studied international law. I built a house, rescued a pair of older doggies, created a partnership that led to a production company, advocated for and fundraised with a sick friend, and spent a lot of time with family and godchildren and driving across the country with the dogs,” she explained. “I got healthy.”.
Zellweger confessed that if she had the opportunity to go back in time and change her decision to become an actor, she’s not sure what she’d do. “I wondered if I would too, because I’m not sure that the way that it works now, celebrity and all of that stuff, I don’t know that that suits me,” she added.
According to the actor, “there used to be a line between celebrity and art.” But now, to her, that line “has become increasingly ambiguous.”. “And notorious and famous and known are now all the same thing. It used to be that you were known because you had done something that was worth knowing about,” Zwelleger added.
The first film, Bridget Jones’s Diary, follows a 32-year-old publicity assistant (played by Zellweger) as she tries to find love and self-confidence while attempting to smoke less, drink less, and lose weight. She chaotically battles with affection for two men (portrayed by Colin Firth and Hugh Grant), before eventually ending up with Firth’s character, Mark Darcy.
