The star looks nearly unrecognisable behind prosthetics and padding. She previously explained that the decision to use a costume instead of gaining weight for the role was made because she was playing a real person and not a character.
Fans didn’t immediately recognise the star in the role due to her drastic transformation in preview photos. Renée’s last part before this was the eponymous role in 2019 biographical drama Judy, which follows the plot of Hollywood legend Judy Garland's life.She gave an interview with New York Magazine at the time, and explained that she slipped into a depression during filming. “I wasn’t healthy,” Renée said. “I wasn’t taking care of myself.
I was the last thing on my list of priorities.“[My therapist] recognised that I spent 99 percent of my life as the public persona and just a microscopic crumb of a fraction in my real life,” she recalled..
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