Renée Zellweger reveals to ‘Bridget Jones’ co-star Hugh Grant why she quit acting for 6 years

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British Vogue Q&A with her “Bridget Jones Diary” co-star Hugh Grant.“Because I needed to,” she said in the piece, which published Wednesday. “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.Zellweger took an acting hiatus around 2010 and didn’t return until 2016 for “Bridget Jones’s Baby.”“What did you do with the time off?

Nothing?” Grant, 64, asked Zellweger, who clarified that she kept busy when she wasn’t making movies.“No, no, no. I wrote music and studied international law,” she said. “I built a house, rescued a pair of older doggies, created a partnership that led to a production company, advocated for and fundraised with a sick friend, and spent a lot of time with family and godchildren and driving across the country with the dogs.

I got healthy.”In 2019, Zellweger told Vulture that the pressures of stardom prompted her to take her acting break.“I wasn’t healthy.