# What's the big deal with Renee Zellweger? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-big-deal-with-renee-zellweger/58491 "2001-03-18T19:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-big-deal-with-renee-zellweger/58491/41 "2001-03-20T15:26:12Z")
I forgot to say this before… I Renee Zellweger is very cute, and I loved her in “Nurse Betty” ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-big-deal-with-renee-zellweger/58491/42 "2001-03-20T19:48:53Z")
FTR, most of you are impugning acting abilities based on roles, not the actress herself. For example, Julia Roberts was utterly fantastic and believable in _Mystic Pizza_. Helen Hunt had some wonderful early roles, etc. Most of them have simply gone the popular route, and those roles don’t let you show your chops. Anyway, back to the OP: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > I don’t get it. She is so totally ordinary looking. Why are guys getting so excited over RZ? She is not someone I would give a second glance at if I passed her on the street. What has she got going for her except being blonde? > [SNIP] > > I’m not against Renee Zellweger, I’m not saying she’s ugly, she’s just ordinary and nothing great. America could do much better. This has to be one of the most pathetic things I’ve read on these boards, and that’s saying a lot. To paraphrase: “America!! What is wrong with your values? You all seem to like a woman who isn’t gorgeous. You all ought to be ashamed of yourselves!” Well, all I can say is fuck you. You are one shallow motherfucker. Sua ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-big-deal-with-renee-zellweger/58491/43 "2001-03-20T21:21:26Z")
> [@](#): > > What Julia’s got, I fall for: gallons and gallons of star power. Charisma. Charm. Beauty. I will watch her do anything, she slays me. It’s a visceral thing. And pretty much undeniable, even if you don’t fall for it personally. It exists, to the tune of, at last count, a billion dollars in just the last few years, I believe. I kinda of wish I could see the Beauty of Julia, but I just can’t. There is only one thing I can see when I look at Julia Roberts… Eric Roberts. She has those same creepy eyes, that same enormous mouth stuck strangely between those gaunt cheeks. Tha same weasely lookign nose. SHe doesn’t have the pocked skin of her brother, but then agian he is made-up to highly it, and she is made-up to hide it, so. You can have all of your Julia fantasies you want, But the quickest way to turn me off is to make me think if Eric Roberts. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-big-deal-with-renee-zellweger/58491/44 "2001-03-20T21:42:17Z")
I think and have always thought that Eric Roberts is completely yummy. Since his accident, he’s a little rougher looking, but still gorgeous. And they certainly do look like siblings…she’s the light version, he’s the dark. And it’s sad that they are estranged. I know there is a segment of the population that doesn’t “get” Julia, and I sort of understand why. But if I could choose somebody to look like, it would be her in a heartbeat. To each his own… ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-big-deal-with-renee-zellweger/58491/45 "2001-03-20T21:58:32Z")
One day Julia Roberts is gonna smile so wide, the corners of her mouth are gonna meet in the back of her head, and the top of her skull will simply fall off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-big-deal-with-renee-zellweger/58491.md?page=2)