After slumming it on Netflix’s deliciously trashy What/If, Renée Zellweger is ready to reenter the Oscar race with Judy, a biopic of The Wizard Of Oz star and showbiz legend Judy Garland slated to drop this fall. Today, a trailer offering a first look at Zellweger’s performance has arrived.
Set in the latter part of Garland’s career, the film follows the singer’s sold-out run at London’s The Talk Of The Town just a year before her death in 1969. Garland, voice not what it was, is anxious for cash and time with her family, but finds joy in both the performances and a romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be-fifth husband. It appears to be a decidedly wistful affair, so we’ll see just how director Rupert Goold folds in the singer’s drug addiction.