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

Renée Zellweger has an explanation for her six-year break from Hollywood.The actress, 55, revealed why she took an acting hiatus from 2010 to 2016 during a 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.I wasn’t taking care of myself.

I was the last thing on my list of priorities,” she said, noting how her therapist helped her during that time.“He recognized that I spent 99 percent of my life as the public persona and just a microscopic crumb of a fraction in my real life,” Zellweger explained.“I needed to not have something to do all the time, to not know what I’m going to be doing for the next two years in advance.

I wanted to allow for some accidents.There had to be some quiet for the ideas to slip in.”Zellweger and Grant also talked about reuniting for “Bridget Jones: Mad About You,” the fourth movie in the rom-com film series that will be released in theaters next month.“I love her.

And her sto...