ARTICLES - INSIDE THE ACTOR'S STUDIO - 2003-3
James: I see.
Renee: And I, and I learned a lot, a lot...as much in that club as I did in
my classes that that club paid for, so...
James: Really?
Renee: Oh yeah. I learned so much. I learned about myself, um, in terms
of my boundaries, and I became very aware of, um, the moral convictions
that were important to me. I learned not to judge people. I learned that
things aren急 black and white, and that the way I had defined 帯ood?in
the past, needed renegotiating, because there were a lot of good people
that I worked with that got up on that stage every night to feed their
families. A lot of them were students who, you know, um, were ok with, I
don急 know, with that element being part of their lives.
James: Was it during that time that you began playing small parts in
movies? You were trying to...
Renee: Yeah, yeah. It was a pretty great life, actually. School in the day,
um, work at night, uh, studying in between, 螋uz work started late.
James: Is that when Reality Bites came into it, at that time?
Renee: Yeah, it did, yeah.
James: Eight Seconds?
Renee: Yes. Before that was, uh, a USA Network, and that was my first
real speaking job.
James: Which one was that?
Renee: It was called, uh, A Taste For Killing. And I was terrified, and I
thought, 単y God, now what? Now I have to go and do it. And I have to
go to that set tomorrow and pretend like I know what I観 doing.? And
nothing has changed. I swear to God. Every time I go out, I have that
same feeling, that now is the time I観 going to get caught and fired. Now
旧 the time they虐e going to figure out that I don急 know what I観
doing, that I観 not an actress, and that I観 faking it. Honestly. So
anyway, it worked out ok.
James: What was your first leading role?
Renee: Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And it was great!
James: Why was it great?
Renee: It was great because I couldn急 believe it. I couldn急 believe it.
Every actor in Texas was in this old house downtown in Austin,
auditioning for this movie, just because it was not a day player, but it was
an opportunity to be part of something for real for the first time.
James: And you were in a state of high hysteria through most of that film.
Renee: Oh yeah, completely.
James: You had a very important role in Love and a .45.
Renee: Yeah.
James: Shake, Rattle and Rock.
Renee: Yeah, that was my first job in Los Angeles.
James: Yeah.
Renee: By default.
James: Why default?
Renee: Well, I didn急 get the job. The actress, she broke her leg two
days before they started filming. So they called.
James: Now, The Whole Wide World is a surprising and touching film. In
it, you play another leading role. How did that movie happen to you?
Renee: I did Shake, Rattle and Rock, and then after that, I went away to
Wilmington, North Carolina and did an ensemble film called Empire
Records. And then I didn急 work again for about a year. I just kinda, um,
read things and knew that they weren急 important to me, and that I didn
急 want to be part of something that wasn急. And my manager friend,
that I started working with after Empire Records, he called me and he
said, 戦 think that you should read this, because I think that it will be
very important to you.? And, uh, it was. It旧 a story of a woman who
was a schoolteacher in Louisiana, and she was a very progressive thinker,
and she struck up a relationship with a very eccentric, artistic man, Robert
E. Howard. And they had a situation of unrequited love, and that旧 what
the story was about, and I felt that it very much parallelled my own life in
a different time.
James: In the music credits, who is Woofgang Zellweger?
Renee: That旧 my dog.
James: Where渇 you get a name like Woofgang?
Renee: It旧 Woof, which is her nickname. Dylan is her name, Woof is
her nickname, and Woofgang is the joke.
James: Dorothy Boyd Maguire in Jerry Maguire was an important step
forward for you. How did that happen?
Renee: Uh yeah, that旧 interesting. I still would like to know. Um, again,
it旧 uh, John Carrabino, my manager I work with. Um, he旧 a great
man, and he believes, you know. And he just thought, for some reason,
that I should be in a movie with Tom Cruise. And uh, and it didn急 seem
to occur to anybody else, but it did to him.
James: Did you have to audition for it?
Renee: Yeah, I did.
James: You挙e been very choosy about the parts that you挙e played.
Renee: Yes, because you can be.
James: Well, I understand, but you can be at your peril. How much did
you have in the bank when you auditioned with Tom Cruise?
Renee: Not enough to actually use the ATM machine on a Sunday. Well
they moved it up from ten bucks to twenty bucks, and so I couldn急 get
out the thirteen bucks that I had in there. Um, it旧 so sad. Isn急 that sad?
James: No, it旧 not sad.
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