“I’ll bore you to death at the dinner party. I really will.”
When Renee Zellweger takes a break, she goes to school.
During an appearance on TODAY, the two-time Oscar winner actress revealed that she graduated after stepping out of the spotlight from 2010 to 2016 — a hiatus that ended with Bridget Jones’ Baby.
The actress admitted that she took a break from Hollywood to improve herself and “grow as a person.”
“[I] went to school,” Zellweger said. “I briefly snuck into UCLA and got involved in public policy.”
“[I am] I’m just very interested in… politics. It’s one of my favorite things,” the 52-year-old man laughed. “I’ll bore you to death at the dinner party.” I really will.”
“I needed to step aside and kind of grow as a person, learn [some things] who were not related to work. I mean it’s one of my favorite things to do. You have the opportunity to discover things that you would otherwise not have the opportunity to explore,” she explained.
In an interview with Vulture in 2019, Zellweger went into detail about how necessary it is for her mental health to remove herself from the spotlight.
“I was not well. I didn’t take care of myself. I was last on my priority list,” she said of the meeting with the therapist.
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“He admitted that I spent 99 percent of my life as a public person and just a microscopic crumb in my real life. do for the next two years ahead,” she continued. “I wanted to allow some accidents. There had to be some kind of lull so that ideas could slip through.”
She also revealed that Salma Hayek gave her the advice she learned that gave her the impetus to take a break from the big screen.
“She shared this beautiful… metaphor? By analogy? “The rose doesn’t bloom all year round… unless it’s plastic,” she shared. “It means that you have to pretend that you are fine in order to go and do the next thing. And you probably need to stop right now, but this creative opportunity is so exciting that it comes once in a lifetime and you will regret it. you don’t do it. But really, no, you have to pull yourself together and, you know… take a break.”
Zellweger is currently promoting his newest project, a true crime series to air on NBC called The Pam Case, based on Pam Hupp’s role in the murder of Betsy Faria.
