Renee Zellweger bemoans ‘notorious and famous’ becoming the same thing
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Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger has complained that “notorious and famous” are increasingly being seen as the same thing. The two-time Oscar winner, 55, known for romantic comedy Jerry Maguire as well as the biopic Judy, is returning to Bridget Jones’s Diary film series for a fourth outing to play the title role of the clumsy and hapless English romantic, slated for a February release.
For a cover of British Vogue, Zellweger was interviewed by her Bridget Jones’s Diary co-star, Hugh Grant, who played sleezy love interest Daniel Cleaver in two of the previous films, and is coming back for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. The movie, adapted from Helen Fielding’s novel Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, sees Bridget navigate life as a single mother after the death of her husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
When asked by Grant about whether she has been put in the same section as people who want to be a “celebrity rather than an actor”, Zellweger told the magazine: “The 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.”.
British actor Grant also said he would decide not to be an actor if he was born again, to which Zellweger replied saying: “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.”.
