Renée Zellweger is taking a break from films, and the reported $5 million dollar paycheck each one fetches her, to spend time at home in New York. Photo Credit: Splash NewsMay 06, 2009, (Sawf News) - Renée Zellweger is taking a break from films, and the reported $5 million dollar paycheck each one fetches her, to spend time at home in New York.
Cozily curled up in bed, she is devouring books and scripts when not indulging in her favorite pastime of napping.
“Yes. I’m taking time to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do next. In this line of work, you become so [defined by your job],” she tells Glamour magazine in their upcoming issue.
“I’m working on getting bored,” she says. “And it’s really hard! But I need to sit still long enough to see where my brain goes.”
She loves being home, instead of living off suitcases.
“I’m actually going into the bathroom to use my bathroom stuff—rather than to the suitcase where I usually keep it. I’m learning how to use a chest of drawers! I am determined to sit still long enough to get past the existential crap of the moment.”
The failure of Renée’s marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney in May 2005 was hard on her; the marriage was officially annulled in December 2005. Since then there have been rumors that she is dating MSNBC legal correspondent Dan Abrams.
Asked if she wants to talk about whom she is dating, she said:
“No. I won’t. Because it’s dumb. It leads to nowhere good. I let everybody else in the media do that for me,” she laughed. “It takes the responsibility off my shoulders!”
Despite the media’s unease with the single status of any successful and beautiful woman, Renée is not fretting.
“You are not deprived in any way, she says. If anything, it’s a pretty self-indulgent lifestyle. It’s selfish: You can make your own decisions and indulge yourself on an impulse.”
She will give it up if the right guy came along though.
“Oh, sure. But if I’m going to give it up, it better be good—because I’m having fun!”
On the kind of person she would give up her single status for
“I’m attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion—and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.”
On the women she finds most glamorous
I am always amazed by Diane Sawyer; she is so elegant and manages to pull it together at 3:00 A.M. every day. Hillary Clinton is great: Even in countries where women are not considered contemporaries, she walks into a room of dignitaries and speaks with such authority. She’s also really warm and funny! And, of course, there’s Michelle Obama—nothing about her is disingenuous. I’m thrilled she’s out there as the face of American women.
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