Picture of Renee Zellweger as Judy
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/judy-first-look-renee-zellweger-garland-1201941018/
shareOuch. First, the hair and dress are more from "The Judy Garland Show" in '64, and not even remotely the Garland
of '68/'69.
Oh, there's the other problem. Zellweger is MISCAST!!! She looks nothing like Garland, and looks too healthy and
naturally slim to portray anything close to Garland. I've also read Zellweger is doing her own singing (another
insult).
To be fair, I never bought Jim Bailey either, and to this day, don't understand his glorified drag shows. Why watch
an imitation when the real thing is at the touch of buttons? (virtually every movie, TV show appearance and recording
is available through DVDS, Blu Rays and Youtube).
I believe that Judy Davis should've been tapped to reprise her role. True, Davis is very long in the tooth, but Garland
looked decades older than 46. I doubt Davis would've agreed to "go there" again, but she would've been a wiser
choice.
I see disaster written all over this - just what (obviously retired) Liza and ailing Lorna need.
The idea of Judy Davis playing Judy again had never occurred to me. It is ingenious!
shareWhat about Tammy Blanchard who, IMO, was just as stellar as Judy Davis was in the same miniseries?
Moot point though, RZ already has the role.
Blanchard caught YOUNG Garland's neediness and confusion over early stardom,
but came nowhere near the great Judy Davis in capturing the essence of
Garland.
Blanchard, too, would've been a misfire.
Agree that Zellweger is miscast. She looks too young and too healthy. So what if she's actually around the right age, Garland was old before her time and by her forties she looked sixtyish! And if Renee is doing her own singing I despair of the project, she has a high thin weak singing voice, while Garland had a very deep, powerful, declining Alto.
Judy Davis would nail the role, and she looks the right age.
Agreed. Judy Garland was a legend. Zellweger is a nonentity.
shareShe's a perfectly good actress, and has been very good in roles that suit her.
Clearly this role does NOT suit her, physically and emotionally. She's never done anything like Garlard's particular brand of agressive neediness, her way of shouting "LOVE ME" at an audience through a song. There's always something contained about her, while Garland was pathologically uncontained in certain ways.
Just to illustrate my point that even though Garland was 47 when she died, she should not be played by a healthy woman in her forties.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ab/af/8a/abaf8a807719a19ee3ac2827e2c14214.jpg
She could pass for 60 here! Or 90!
First, the hair and dress are more from "The Judy Garland Show" in '64, and not even remotely the Garland of '68/'69.
Good catch. I immediately recognized the image as Judy's '63-'64 look.
It did not occur to me that this was NOT her look toward the end of her life.
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