Renee Zellweger reveals she studied international law at UCLA during her break from acting

Renee Zellweger made quite the impression on Monday morning as she heading to the Today show in New York City.

The Oscar-winning actress wore a black coat over a black top and eye-popping orange slacks with deeper orange pumps as she waved to fans outside the studio.

The blonde beauty, 52, talked about the process of transforming into Pam Hupp for the crime drama series The Thing About Pam as she also revealed she studied international law at UCLA during her break from acting which lasted from 2010 until 2016.

Hollywood force: Renee Zellweger made quite the impression on Monday morning as she heading to the Today show in New York City

Style setter: The Oscar-winning actress wore a black coat over a black top and eye-popping orange slacks with deeper orange pumps as she waves to fans outside the studio

As far as her break, she said she had to have some time to herself: ‘I needed to step away and grow as a person, learn some things that were not related to work.’

When pressed she added, ‘I went to school and just took some time out and decided that maybe I would want to participate in a different way.

‘I went to UCLA for a little while to study public policy,’ she said. ‘International law, very interesting, I am interested in politics.’

She added she is ‘not sure’ what she will do with her education but she has a knack for ‘boring people to death’ at dinner parties with her information.

On air: The blonde beauty, 52, revealed she studied international law at UCLA during her break from acting which lasted from 2010 until 2016

The UCLA School of Law is one of 12 professional schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

UCLA Law has been consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top 20 law schools in the United States since the inception of the U.S. News rankings in 1987, according to Wikipedia.

Kim Kardashian has also been studying law. The reality star, 41, passed California’s First-Year Law Students’ Exam, known as the baby bar, in December. 

Me time: As far as her break, she said she had to have some time to herself: ‘I needed to step away and grow as a person, learn some things that were not related to work’

Next a politician? ‘I went to UCLA for a little while to study public policy,’ she said. ‘International law, very interesting, I am interested in politics’

Renee took a break from acting from 2010 after she starred in Case 39 until 2016 when she made The Whole Truth.

Her post break projects include the series What/If and the film Judy for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Last week she told Entertainment Tonight that she was ‘amazed’ when she saw herself as murderer Pam Hupp for the first time after donning a body prosthetic.

The actress transformed into the killer – who is serving a life sentence for the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger – for NBC true crime series The Thing About Pam.

The star insists it was ‘really important’ for the viewers that she tried to look as much like Hupp as possible.

Speaking about seeing herself as Hupp for the first time, she said: ‘Amazement, I was amazed. You might achieve a couple of things, but I had no expectation it was gonna be as remarkable as that.

Incredible: The actress transformed into the killer – who is serving a life sentence for the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger – for NBC true crime series The Thing About Pam, and the star insists it was ‘really important’ for the viewers that she tried to look as much like Hupp as possible

The show: The Thing About Pam about Pam Hupp in NBC’s new series based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria. The Thing About Pam premieres Tuesday, March 8 at 10/9c on NBC

‘The idea is to be accurate, the idea is accuracy. I think, especially in the case of telling this story, it was really important to as closely resemble Pam Hupp as we possibly could, because she seems so familiar, she seems like someone that we recognize, and we know.

‘In order for you to better understand how possible it might be that people would project onto her who they are sure that she might be or what kind of person she might, it just seemed really important that we got as close to that as we could.’

The series was mainly filmed in New Orleans, where it was regularly hot and humid, but Renée found the make-up process ‘amazing to watch’.

Her handsome costar: Zellweger with Josh Duhamel at the Maybourne Beverly Hills on February 28

The cast: From left to right, Judy Greer, Glenn Fleshler, Suanne Spoke, Zellweger, Duhamel, Gideon Adlon, Sean Bridgers and Mac Brandt

She added to ‘Entertainment Tonight’: ‘It was hot. It was really hot. But it’s amazing to watch.

‘Arian, who builds these things and applies them every day, he creates them by hand and paints them down to the last freckle. His precision is remarkable. It’s part of the adventure, watching that happen every day, is pretty cool.’

The Bridget Jones’s Diary star revealed she was initially spending four hours being transformed into Hupp, but towards the end of filming it only took two hours.

She told E!: ‘We started at about four [hours] and we whittled it down to around two.

‘They have a mind of their own, you know? If everybody cooperates – the cheeks are feeling like playing nice, the nose, and everything. But yeah, it took about a couple of hours.’

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