![]() ![]() ![]() Bridget’s problem really isn’t being what Fielding calls a “singleton” in a world full of “smug- marrieds.” It’s her shabby self-image. Z is A-list all the way.Ģ) Helen Fielding, the journalist who dreamed up Bridget for a London newspaper column, has touched a nerve. “I told you I don’t like Renee Zellweger,” snapped Carm, who will now have to revise her opinion. On the first season of The Sopranos, Tony’s wife, Carmela, ended her friendship with Father Phil when the priest brought her a DVD of One True Thing. Some people still don’t cotton to this actress, even after Jerry Maguire and Nurse Betty. Whether Bridget is singing along to self-pitying pop anthems like “All by Myself” or answering the phone - “Hello, Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between my thighs” - only to find the caller is her mother, Zellweger never hits a false note. What’s great about Zellweger, besides the fact that she has the sexiest squint in movies (take that, Benicio), is the way she blends strength and vulnerability. Barbara Berkery, Gwyneth’s dialogue coach for Shakespeare in Love, rounded Zellweger’s vowels a diet of pizza and milkshakes rounded everything else and an undercover stint at a London publishing house made her comfortable in Bridget’s skin as a book publicist. Never mind all that go-home-Yank resentment over a twiggy Texan putting on twenty pounds and a British accent to portray a character that another actress - say, Kate Winslet - could step into without the heavy lifting. ![]()
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