How do you play a Hollywood icon like Judy Garland? For Renee Zellweger, getting...
- How do you play a Hollywood icon like Judy Garland? For Renee Zellweger, getting under her skin was like falling in love.
“Judy” focuses on the period when Garland struggled with alcohol, prescription drug use and her broken finances on a trip to London in late 1968 for a series of concerts. The “Wizard of Oz” star died at age 47 of an accidental drug overdose in June 1969. “I put the music on and then I started digging for the books and I ordered the books and then I dug around on the Internet every day and I just took in very greedily everything I could find. I was just in love and I got more and more greedy,” Zellweger told Reuters Television.
“She was rarely not Judy. She had so much to do. She was often working before I got there and she was still working after I left. I rarely saw her outside of the character and so I kind of forgot who Renee was,” said Finn Wittrock, who plays Garland’s fifth and last husband Mickey Deans.
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