When perusing Salon today, you may be tempted to skip over this article by Molly Norton about Renee Zellweger and you shouldn’t. It’s really cute.
When I found out she had no real acting experience, I relaxed. I mean, she didn’t spend 50K on drama school to learn the Stanislavski emotional-recall technique that allowed one to cry on cue just by remembering how much she had spent on acting school.
Maybe I like it just ‘cause she’s a hometown girl, or maybe it’s kismit because the last thing I read before falling asleep last night was this piece in the Texas Monthly Bum Steer Awards 2004:
Posted by etrigan at January 29, 2004 5:18 AMICH BIN EIN EAVESDROPPER A German couple eating breakfast in the same restaurant as Renee Zellweger started gossiping in their native tongue about the Texas-born actress, criticizing her clothes and speculating about her height and marital status, only to be answered curtly in German by Zellweger herself, who said, “No, I’m not [married]. I’m five foot three, and I always dress this way in the morning.”