True Crimes

IF YOU’RE A DIRECTOR LOOKING to cast a female actor to play a real-life person, a handful of actresses come to mind, and one of those actresses is Renée Zellweger. She won an Oscar playing one of the most recognizable entertainers in Hollywood history, Judy Garland. Now she’s taking these amazing skills of mimicry and applying them to her portrayal of alleged multiple murderer Pam Hupp in NBC’s ripped-from-the-headlines miniseries The Thing About Pam. The series premiered March 8.

“I want it to be responsible,” Zellweger tells . “It’s never to lampoon a person or humiliate a person.”