What did Renee Zellweger do during her acting break?

“I’ll bore you to death at the dinner party, really.”

But there was also some time – mostly most of the 2010s – when Zellweger wasn’t in too many films and actually took a break from the limelight.

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As it turned out, she went back to school.

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“I went to school, just took a break and decided that maybe I would like to participate in a different way,” she said.

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Specifically, she enrolled at UCLA “to study public policy and international law. Very interesting, I’m interested in politics.”

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From the way she talks, it sounds like she’s really passionate about it, but Renée insisted that you didn’t want her to continue this topic.

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“I’ll bore you to death at the dinner party.” I really will,” she joked. – Don’t turn me on.

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