VideoRenée Zellweger on Her Judy-Fueled YouTube SpiralThe Oscar winner dropped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss playing Judy Garland.
By
Dan Meyer
September 26, 2019
Oscar winner Renée Zellweger went down the rabbit hole of YouTube to prepare for her role as Judy Garland, the star of Judy told The Late Show with Stephen Colbert September 25.
“The internet is a fabulous research tool,” Zellweger said of spending time online watching videos and listening to audio recordings. We can obviously relate.
Zellweger also discussed relating to the balancing of public and personal life that comes with being a celebrity like Judy Garland. “I understand the gulf between the persona and the truth of human experience, certainly,” she said, adding that today’s generation of women is now able to participate in conversations about inequalities in the workplace—a right not as immediately granted to Garland.
Judy follows the showbiz luminary’s later years during her final string of performances at London’s Talk of the Town. That period of time was fraught for the starlet—despite early success with films like The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis and later success with concert performances, Garland ultimately wound up divorced four times over, addicted to pills, and nearly penniless. Despite it all, she continued to embrace those who celebrated her throughout the years.
Joining Zellweger in the movie are Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story, Broadway's The Glass Menagerie) as Mickie Deans, Jessie Buckley as Rosalyn Wilder, Michael Gambon as Bernard Delfont, and Gemma-Leah Devereux and Bella Ramsey as a young Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft.
Watch the interview above. Zellweger and Wittrock reunited to speak toThe Today Show September 25 about working together.
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Remembering the Great Roles of Judy Garland
Remembering the Great Roles of Judy Garland
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Judy Garland
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Judy Garland "at Home at the Palace" Playbill - Aug 1967
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Judy Garland in "Broadway Melody of 1938"
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Judy Garland and Buddy Ebsen in "Broadway Melody of 1938"
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Judy Garland in "Everybody Sing"
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Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in "Love Finds Andy Hardy"
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Judy Garland in "Listen, Darling"
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Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Clara Blandick and Charley Grapewin in "The Wizard of Oz"
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Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr in "The Wizard of Oz"
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Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz"
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Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in "Babes in Arms"
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Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in "Andy Hardy Meets A Debutante"
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Judy Garland in "Little Nellie Kelly"
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Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland in "Ziegfeld Girl"
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Judy Garland in "Babes On Broadway"
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Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in "For Me and My Gal"
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Judy Garland in "Presenting Lily Mars"
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Judy Garland and Van Heflin in "Presenting Lily Mars"
Wicked, injecting a new backstory onto the classic tale The Wizard of Oz, debuted on Broadway in 2003 and continues to be an audience favorite at the Gershwin Theatre.
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