{"id":332735,"date":"2025-12-05T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332735\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:23:08","slug":"finding-prince-charming-star-dies-suddenly-at-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332735\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Finding Prince Charming\u2019 Star Dies Suddenly at 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph standard-cheatsheet-link\">Ren\u00e9e Zellweger says her initial rise to fame irritated movie and marketing execs because she wasn\u2019t considered enough of a classical \u201cHollywood Beauty.\u201d \u201cLook, I know I don\u2019t have, and never have had, traditional movie-star looks,\u201d Zellweger, 55, told the Telegraph in an interview Friday. \u201cSo something I kept hearing was, \u2018How can we overcome this lack of movie-star-ness you embody?\u2019 There would be a hair meeting, where they\u2019d all say, \u2018What are we going to do with this limp, fine hair? How are we going to make her look fabulous?\u2019 And then a dress meeting, where it would be \u2018She\u2019s not voluptuous enough, so what are we going to do about that?\u2019\u201d Zellweger confessed that early on in her career, she even believed the way she looked was \u201cprohibitive,\u201d and that a \u201cprettier girl deserved the job over me.\u201d But the constant scrutiny, she explained, eventually helped fuel her performance as Bridget Jones, as she was able to channel the continuous nitpicking and anxieties into a career-defining role. \u201cIt was so liberating,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause finally, here was a character who doesn\u2019t get it right. She tries, but her make-up and hair are a mess, her outfits don\u2019t quite come together properly. And for me, after 10 years of not measuring up, that was so freeing&#8230;Bridget wasn\u2019t magazine-cover perfect. In fact, she had to not be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e Zellweger says her initial rise to fame irritated movie and marketing execs because she wasn\u2019t considered enough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-332735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}