Renee Zellweger Recalls Seeing Her 'Thing About Pam' Transformation for the First Time (Exclusive)
etonline.comRenée Zellweger is nearly unrecognizable in her new true-crime drama, . ET's Lauren Zima spoke with Zellweger at the NBC series' premiere in Los Angeles Monday night, where she opened up about the major transformation she underwent to play the Missouri mother turned murderer, Pam Hupp.«Amazement, I was amazed,» Zellweger said of seeing herself as Hupp for the first time. «You might achieve a couple of things but I had no expectation it was gonna be as remarkable as that.»In the upcoming series, co-starring Josh Duhamel as defense attorney Joel Schwartz, Judy Greer as prosecutor Leah Askey and Katy Mixon as Betsy Faria, Zellweger plays Pam, whose deeply diabolical and deadly scheme was exposed by a chain of events following the overturning of Russ Faria’s conviction in the 2011 murder of his wife.
In addition to transforming her face for the role, Zellweger also donned a body prosthetic, in an effort to make her appearance as Hupp as «accurate» as possible.«The idea is to be accurate, the idea is accuracy,» the star said of why she chose to wear the sometimes daunting prosthetic. «I think, especially in the case of telling this story, it was really important to as closely resemble Pam Hupp as we possibly could, because she seems so familiar, she seems like someone that we recognize and we know.»«In order for you to better understand how possible it might be that people would project onto her who they are sure that she might be or what kind of person she might, it just seemed really important that we got as close to that as we could,» she continued.Zellweger was in the makeup chair for hours a day for the series, which filmed in New Orleans, a city which has its fair share of hot and humid weather.«It was hot.
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