Renee Zellweger Doesn’t Think She Looks Like a Movie Star?

From her hilarious antics in “Bridget Jones’s Diary” to her showstopping routines in “Chicago” and her Oscar-winning performance in “Cold Mountain,” Renee Zellweger has proven she’s a versatile and talented actress…indeed.

But she begs to differ?

Now, she’s showing moviegoers what she can do behind the camera as well. Zellweger is the producer and star of “Miss Potter,” the new film about Beatrix Potter, creator of the best-selling children’s book of all time, “Peter Rabbit.”

Not only was Potter a well-known author, she was also a pioneering environmentalist and a career woman who defied her parents and fell in love with her publisher. Though Potter and Zellweger are separated by more than a century, they have much in common. Both are famous and admired by the public, and both women share a sense of shyness and humility.

ABC’s Diane Sawyer recently sat down with Zellweger to talk about “Miss Potter” and why she doesn’t feel like the typical movie star.

Diane Sawyer: So Beatrix Potter. Who knew that she was this revolutionary thing? I imagined her as this â€” sort of big-breasted grandmother.

Renee Zellweger: Yeah. Not me. I didn’t know a thing. I was so surprised to find out that the lady behind the bunnies and the, and the, and you know, the ducks and the mice, was so accomplished in so many different areas. I had absolutely no idea.

Diane Sawyer: So how did you first get turned onto it?

Renee Zellweger: I read the script. I read the script and I was just fascinated. I was fascinated by her life story, which is impossible to believe it’s not fiction. You know, when you finish the script, you’re thinking, okay, it has all of the makings of great storytelling. And then you come to find that this is actually her true life story, and then I was hooked, and then I just wanted to know more.

Diane Sawyer: And also, her love story, my goodness.

Renee Zellweger: I know. Isn’t it extraordinary?

Diane Sawyer: You said recently â€” you said, I don’t think I look like a movie star. Do you really mean that?]

Renee Zellweger: Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. When I think of movie star in the conventional sense, oh, absolutely.

Diane Sawyer: Who looks like a movie star?

Renee Zellweger: Oh, well, there’s lists and lists of, you know, gorgeous girls who fit the bill. I, I don’t know. I look like kind of a little bit of an accident maybe, a little bit unconventional. I mean, but it works for me. I don’t complain. It makes it easier for me, I think.

I mean I didn’t, I didn’t find my way through this business becauseâ€¦people wereâ€¦celebrating this, this great beauty you know, so I don’t have an obligation to maintain it, which is nice and I’m not limited by it. I don’t want to worry about what I look like or I don’t want what I’m inevitably â€”

Diane Sawyer: Well, you don’t get up in the morning like we do and go â€” well, girls, come on, I’m a girl.

Renee Zellweger: Absolutely, I’m a girl. I want to cover my pimples like everybody else. But I don’t want to be beholden to that.

Diane Sawyer: You said your New Year’s resolution is to get control of your personal life? You had a very funny word: it was to do a better job of “managing my personal life.” Is this the New Year’s resolution, and to do a lot of focusing on your cat?

Renee Zellweger: Yeah, there’s just, you know, little things that fall by the wayside that I’d like not to let fall by the wayside, and I’d like to have more grace in certain areas of my professional life. That’s a big one.

Diane Sawyer: Spiritual grace or â€”

Renee Zellweger: I would like to be more comfortable with the subsequent complications that come from having a public persona. I’m not so good at it. I can fake it, but on the inside, I get a bit, you know, a little bit jostled by it. So I’d like to find a way to be more comfortable with the things that come with it.

Diane Sawyer: Here’s to a great 2007.

Renee Zellweger: Thank you very much.

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