Bridget Jones’ Diary actress Renee Zellweger originally worked in a bar when she first moved to Los Angeles from her native Texas, and once found she was unable to get out of her car to return to her home because people were buying and selling crack cocaine there.
“I moved to Los Angeles on December 6, 1993. My attitude was that I was going to see where it took me,” she recalls.
“To make a living, I worked in a bar called The Three Cubs on a street called Vine, behind the Mobil gas station.
“It was an incredible place for a girl like me, who had lived in relatively safe places all her life. There were crack deals being done on the street corner – so I would come back from the bar late at night then not be able to get out of my car to my apartment until the deals were completed. I worked at that bar for two years.”
However, the 42-year-old star knew she would be able to succeed whatever happened as if acting failed, as she had her English degree from the University of Texas to fall back on.
She told The Sun newspaper, “There was one thing my mother said was never acceptable. When I said, ‘I don’t know how to do that,’ she would say, ‘Learn’. She encouraged me to get a college education as something to fall back on if acting didn’t work out.”
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