Renée Zellweger On Playing An ‘Outrageous’ Murderer In ‘The Thing About Pam’ & Finding Love With Ant Anstead

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Renée Zellweger covers the April “Reinvention” issue of Harper’s Bazaar to talk about her incredible transformation in “The Thing About Pam” and how she explored reinvention as a personal project in both her private and professional lives over the last few years.

The 52-year-old actress, who has been in the spotlight for three decades, has taken on the role of a murderous protagonist in the prime-time NBC miniseries “The Thing About Pam” because it felt “lighter” even though it’s based on a “horrific crime.” READ MORE: Renée Zellweger Was Allergic To The Glue In Her ‘The Thing About Pam’ Prosthetics Pam’s “benign” appearance is what intrigued Zellweger the most.  “Everybody feels like, ‘I know her.

I know that lady.’ Someone who looks like your next-door neighbour or the lady who would babysit you turns out to make some choices that are, to put it kindly, illegal,” she explains. “This person was so outrageous, this sense of entitlement—I thought, Okay, as an actress, that’s fun.” The crime series’ executive producer Jason Blum notes that everyone wanted Zellweger for the role and “were all thrilled that she would do it but no one had any idea how well she would be able to connect to [Pam].”  Co-star Josh Duhamel adds that he was shocked when he first saw Zellweger in costume and “didn’t realize how ‘method’ she was.”  However, Zellweger pushed acting to the side to take a self-imposed hiatus between 2010 and 2016 to take college classes in public policy and international law.

She travelled abroad, fell in love, mended a broken heart and took in a couple of dogs. READ MORE: Renée Zellweger Reveals She Was A Law Student At UCLA “I needed to not have something to do all the time,” she says of that period. “To