LOS ANGELES: Actress Rose McGowan is calling out a film critic for writing that Renee Zellweger no longer looks like herself and insinuating that Zellweger underwent plastic surgery.
In an op-ed piece for The Hollywood Reporter, McGowan calls Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman a bully and “an active endorser of what is tantamount to harassment and abuse of actresses and women.” McGowan is responding to a column Gleiberman wrote last week on the trailer for the “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” the third film in the franchise starring Zellweger as the title character.
Gleiberman writes that the Oscar winner no longer looks like Bridget Jones. He says that while watching the trailer he “felt like something had been taken away.”
He wrote: “In the case of Renée Zellweger, it may look to a great many people like something more than an elaborate make-up job has taken place, but we can’t say for sure. What we can say is that if that happened, it reflects something indescribably sad about our culture.”
In response, McGowan wrote: “Zellweger is a human being, with feelings, with a life, with love and with triumphs and struggles, just like the rest of us. How dare you use her as a punching bag in your mistaken attempt to make a mark at your new job.
“How dare you bully a woman who has done nothing but try to entertain people like you.
McGowan rejects criticism on Zellweger
McGowan rejects criticism on Zellweger
