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Renée Zellweger Says ‘The Thing About Pam’ Prosthetics Caused Her to Break Out in Rashes

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJudy Greer admits seeing Renée Zellweger for the first time in full makeup, prosthetics and wardrobe as convicted murderer Pam Hupp while shooting “The Thing About Pam” presented a a unique set of challenges.“We both looked at each other and started laughing,” Greer, who plays controversial prosecutor Leah Askey in the true-crime series, said Wednesday at the NBCU FYC House in Hollywood during a panel moderated by yours truly. “And then she told me not to make her laugh because her face would fall off.”Asked if her face ever did “fall off,” Zellweger laughed, “Yes.”Zellweger revealed the prosthetics did cause her to break out in a rash. “The rash didn’t go away.

It was itchy,” she said, laughing. Even so, she the two-time Oscar winner said, “Are there every too many prosthetics? I don’t think so.

What a cool process. I didn’t know anything about that stuff… It was magnificent to sit there and watch it all come together.”“The Thing About Pam” is based on the podcast of the same name and “Dateline” episodes that chronicled the life of Hupp, who is in prison for murder.

She is charged with killing her best friend Betsy Faria and framing her husband Russ Faria as the culprit.The six-episode show, which premiered on NBC in March, is the first scripted series from NBC News and was produced in collaboration with Blumhouse Television.“Like everyone who listened to the podcast, I was obsessed,” Zellweger said about taking on the titular role.

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