Renée Zellweger says she ‘needed to’ have a six-year hiatus from acting before Bridget Jones’s Baby

Renée Zellweger has opened up about her six-year hiatus from acting in 2010-2016. She explained in an interview that she “needed to” have that break before famously returning with 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby. 

The Bridget Jones actress‘ long-running co-star, Hugh Grant, interviewed her about the next instalment in the series, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.  Grant asked Zellweger in the British Vogue interview, “Why did you take a hiatus [from acting, from 2010 to 2016]?” 

To this, Zellweger replied: “Because I needed to. I was sick of the sound of my own voice. When I was working, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, listen to you. Are you sad again, Renée? Oh, is this your mad voice?’ It was a regurgitation of the same emotional experiences.”

She added to

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