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down to a fine art; Renee Zellweger plays Beatrix Potter, the beloved children's-book author and illustrator, in the upcoming film Miss Potter.(Interview)
Byline: Kennedy Fraser
Renee Zellweger is great as Beatrix Potter, creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and a score of other children's classics. But in person, across the table in a restaurant in Beverly Hills, the actress makes me think less of the late-Victorian artist and naturalist than of Hunca Munca, Tabitha Twitchit, Sir Isaac Newton, and the other animal characters. Zellweger is a slender, wiry little person, with a mobile, expressive mouth like that of Benjamin Bouncer, Potter's pet rabbit, when he was nibbling on a gooseberry. And she has a trick of scrunching up her eyes as if she has just emerged from one of those Beatrix ...
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