Renée Zellweger offered wine to get naked on set

The Oscar-winning actress revealed in a recent interview that film producers have offered her wine to help her loosen up ahead of nude scenes.

Hollywood actress Renée Zellweger has revealed during an interview with Harpers Bazaar that early in her career, film producers offered her wine to take her clothes off on set.

Zellweger said she was offered alcohol in an attempt to persuade her to agree to disrobe, and recalls the unnamed producer(s) telling her: “Here, drink this wine, ’cause then you’ll do it”.

“There have been times I have been in, you know, on set, where a producer’s ready for me to go ahead and take my clothes off: ‘Here, drink this wine, ’cause then you’ll do it,’” Zellweger said.

The two-time Academy-Award winner continued: “And, you know, I’m not gonna take that wine, but I would like a phone. ‘Cause I have a phone call I need to make right now”.

It is not known on which film production(s) the event(s) took place, nor who the producers involved were.

However, Zellweger is “adamant that she was never a victim” and appears to downplay her experience when compared with other ordeals that women in the film industry have gone through.

Zellweger has spoken out against nude scenes in the past, telling Premiere magazine in 2001 that she refused director Cameron Crowe’s request for her to appear topless during a scene in Jerry Maguire.

“It’s not like Cameron’s big plan was to have this sleazy, gratuitous boob shot,” Zellweger said. “That’s not in him, and I’d do anything for him — with the exception of that.”

In 2017, Zellweger slammed Harvey Weinstein’s claims that she had “performed sexual favours for him”. In a class-action lawsuit filed against the ex-movie-mogul, one accuser claimed Weinstein had tried to talk her into having sex with him, allegedly telling the woman that in return he could help her career “in the way that he had with Charlize Theron and Renée Zellweger”.

Zellweger worked with Weinstein a number of times, including on Bridget Jones’ Diary, Cold Mountain and Chicago, but strongly refutes any suggestion of sexual activity with the disgraced producer.