The new trailer for the upcoming biopic Judy was just released today, and fans can’t believe the transformation that Renee Zellweger underwent as she portrayed the legendary star Judy Garland.
The film features Zellweger in her first leading role since 2016’s Bridget Jones’ Baby, and it features her playing Garland one year before her death in 1969. The film’s haunting trailer is set to Zellweger’s rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and it has fans very excited to see the movie.
To prepare for the role, Zellweger reportedly took music lessons, studied choreography and did tireless research on Garland, who was best known for her role in the 1939 movie The Wizard Of Oz. Before filming each day, Zellweger spent two hours in the makeup chair getting prosthetics, contact lenses and wigs applied so that she would look just like the late star.
“It was such a joy learning about the magnificence of this person,” Zellweger said. “I always admired her. She was so quick and so funny. She could hit the ball back with the best of them.”
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Earlier this year, Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft spoke out to recall what kind of mother she was.
“She was a great mother — incredibly loving, touchy-feeling and with a wicked sense of humor,” Luft said. “She understood about human frailties in other people and was very understanding. She hated discrimination and loved everyone. Both of my parents taught me kindness, understanding and not taking things for granted.”
She went on to talk about how difficult it was to lose her mother at such a young age.
“When she died, in the bathroom of her Chelsea mews house on June 22, 1969, the show and sense of loss were almost unbearable,” Luft continued. “Losing a parent at any age is devastating, but when you lose a parent who’s really, really famous, you have to share your grief with the rest of the world and that’s so strange. I just knew her as my mother, in the kitchen in a bathrobe, but to the world, she was an icon, a legend.”
Garland’s family can at least take comfort in the fact that she has not and never will be forgotten. Check out the trailer for Judy below.
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