BIG ROLE
Renee Zellweger, 52, looks completely unrecognizable with new face & ‘fat suit’ in trailer for show The Thing About Pam
RENEE Zellweger certainly committed to her latest part.
The actress wore a new face and 'fat suit' for her TV series The Thing About Pam, looking UNRECOGNIZABLE in its trailer.
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Renee, 52, is starring in a true crime series about convicted killer Pam Hupp, and she truly went all-out.
The suburban mom, herself 63, is serving a life sentence for murdering a disabled man named Louis Gumpenberger in 2016.
In , Renee, or Pam, sips a soda in a windbreaker and jeans and goes about her daily routine while police zero in on her cash-grab crime.
"Now you can afford that face lift you've been wanting," a character tells her at one point.
The two-time Oscar-winner, who gained 30 pounds to portray Bridget Jones in 2001, is barely recognizable as Pam, clearly going a different route this time.
Whereas the actress wanted to naturally gain weight for that role, Renee wore drastic facial prosthetics and a "padded" body suit for Pam and it's something.
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Renee spoke about The Thing About Pam, and on her major character transformation to play the convicted criminal, with .
"Oh, gosh, if you don’t recognize an actor or an actress in a performance, that’s a great compliment."
"You’re not trying to tell your own story.”
She added on her new look: "It was pretty much head to toe. It was prosthetics, it was a [padded] suit, it was the choice of clothing, it was the briskness in her step-step-step, her gait."
Renee is co-producing the six-episode series via her production company Big Picture Co.
A production assistant was earlier seen toting the flesh colored ‘fat suit’ across the lot.
Twitter users were certainly intrigued if a little torn by the transformation.
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FANS TORN ON RENEE'S 'SUIT'
"If there's one thing Renée Zellweger is going to do for a film role, it's physically transform. This woman is amazing," one wrote.
Yet another argued, "I thinks it is a shame to wear a fat suit as if there were no fat actresses that could played that role."
Another yet simply noted: "They just made Renee look like a Karen."
Pam is currently serving a life sentence for the 2016 shooting of Louis.
This year she plead not guilty to the 2011 murder of her friend Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Faria, who was stabbed 55 times.
Pam is accused of convincing Faria to put her name on her $150,000 life insurance policy and then trying to frame Faria’s husband, as depicted in the new series.
RENEE'S NEW LOVE
Meanwhile, Renee is said to be loved-up with new boyfriend Ant Anstead, 42.
The actress recently listed her Topanga Canyon property in Los Angeles for $6 million as it's claimed she's enjoying beach life on the California coast with her new man.
A source told : Renée basically lives in Laguna Beach with Ant," the source says. "She is never at her Topanga Canyon house."
Ant purchased his oceanfront home in May.
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that Ant is excited about his future with the actress and it has shown in his uplifting mood.
“He’s excited about life and excited in general."
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