The actress, 50, has already earned several awards for her dynamic portrayal of the Hollywood icon
To prepare for her role as the Hollywood icon in, Zellweger, 50, tells PEOPLE she studied hours of personal audio recordings, bootleg music performances and interviews.
“I tried to break it down from an intellectual perspective and look at the methodology behind it,” she says. “Like, okay there’s a style of singing here, and what octave she’s singing in, and what the damage at that time in her life in terms of her performances. What are those things that are defining characteristics in terms of her performance choices? And I’d try to study those.”star arrived in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub.
“I never tried to hit any of those notes before — I mean, maybe in the shower it was a good idea,” Zellweger says. “So I started the vocal training and the practical training that I could, just to see what that felt like and to see what was necessary in order to actually make that sound.”marks Zellweger’s return to Hollywood after a mostly quiet decade. She feels she understands Garland somewhat from having also spent time in the spotlight.
“When you’re portraying non-fictional accounts of people’s lives there’s a different kind of responsibility you feel to represent what could be known as accurately as possible,” she said. The 92nd Annual Academy Awards will air live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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