Renée Zellweger took acting hiatus because she was ‘sick of the sound of my own voice’
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Renée Zellweger is opening up about why she took a half-decade hiatus from acting, and it has to do with the sound of her voice.
In a recent interview with Hugh Grant for British Vogue, Grant asked Zellweger why she took a break from acting between the years 2010 and 2016.
“Because I needed to. 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,” Zellweger said.
While she did not do any acting during her break, Zellweger said she kept up with her artistry by writing music, among other new hobbies she picked up.
The actress “studied international law. 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” during her acting hiatus, she said.
Zellweger and Grant will reunite in the upcoming fourth Bridget Jones film, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which streams on Peacock on Feb. 13.
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On Thursday, the cast of the upcoming film shared a fun video announcing that the movie is coming to theaters on Dec. 25, 2025.
The video, which mimics a popular TikTok trend, begins with onscreen text over holiday decorations that reads, “Streets are saying the housemaid would be a perfect christmas movie.”
Cast members of the film — Amanda Seyfried, Sydney Sweeney and Brandon Sklenar — then suddenly appear onscreen, acting as if they flipped the phone’s camera around by accident before panicking and trying to flip it back.
The upcoming movie is based on author Freida McFadden‘s bestselling novel of the same name.
The logline for the film reads, “Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling young woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Sklenar), an upscale, wealthy couple… but soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.”
Also starring in the film, which is directed by Paul Feig, is Subservience actor Michele Morrone.
News about the film adaptation of McFadden’s novel was first announced in October. At the time, Seyfried and Sweeney each shared the announcement on Instagram.
Jack Black and Paul Rudd will star in a new, reimagined Anaconda film.
The duo announced the news in a hilarious video on Friday, which features the two actors on a fun set enthusiastically talking about the new project.
“Hey, what’s up people, we’re making a movie,” Black says in the video.
“Guess what it is?” Rudd continues, before Black says, “Paul Rudd and Jack Black star in the Anaconda!'”
Black then says the film will have a big snake and that “it’s going to rip!”
“You want to get scared? You want to laugh? You want to celebrate with your friends? Or maybe you’re alone and sad and have nobody but just want to forget about that,” Rudd adds before sharing the film’s 2025 release date.
“Come see our movie, Anaconda!'” Black adds.
The duo end their video with Black asking Rudd if he saw the snake for the film yet before they head off screen to see it.
Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten wrote the script for the upcoming movie, and Gormican will be directing, according to a description of the film. Brad Fuller and Andrew Form also join the film as producers.
Details about the film’s plot are still under wraps.
The first Anaconda movie, an adventure horror film, was released in 1997 and was directed by Luis Llosa. It starred Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Ice Cube and Owen Wilson. The film followed a National Geographic film crew “taken hostage by a hunter who forces them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest and deadliest snake,” according to a description of the film.
Anaconda, starring Black and Rudd, will slither into theaters Dec. 25, 2025.
