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It’s all developing Renée! On the identical day her scripted true crime sequence The Factor About Pam premieres on Peacock, it was introduced that Renée Zellweger will star in one other present for NBCUniversal. Peacock is at present growing a World Warfare II drama titled Avenger Subject, through which Zellweger will play the lead position.
From MGM Tv, Avenger Subject will heart on an all-female U.S. Airforce program known as the WASPs (Ladies Airforce Service Pilots). Zellweger is swapping her Factor About Pam fats swimsuit for a flight swimsuit to play real-life WASP founder Jacqueline Cochran. A record-breaking aviator, Cochran was the primary lady to interrupt the sound barrier in 1953.
Touted within the logline as a venture “within the vein of Hidden Figures,” Avenger Subject is penned by showrunner Felicia D. Henderson. Susanna White, who has labored on episodes of Billions, Masters of Intercourse, and Boardwalk Empire, shall be sitting within the director’s chair. Each ladies are additionally govt producing, together with Zellweger and her Large Image Co. companion Carmella Casinelli.
Zellweger is experiencing one thing of knowledgeable scorching streak. In February 2020 (which can as properly have been 100 years in the past, however no matter), the Bridget Jones’s Diary star received the Academy Award for Finest Actress for her gorgeous efficiency as Judy Garland in Judy.
Now, she is headlining two main drama sequence for NBCUniversal, to not point out she is fortunately (and randomly) in a relationship with English tv host Ant Anstead. What extra is there to say, besides that we love this for her and we are able to get behind any venture that retains Renée Zellweger on our TV screens.