Renee Zellweger is a “terrible” movie star, because she hates promoting her work.

The actress, who is busy publicizing new movie Leatherheads, admits she finds interviews with the media tiresome.

She says, “I’m a terrible movie star. I’m not good at it. I can pretend to be but it takes a lot out of me. It’s not my natural inclination to go, ‘Oh good! Another talk show!’”
Zellweger also admits she chooses film characters who bear no resemblance to herself - because doesn’t want to feel vulnerable on the big screen.

She adds, “I don’t feel safe playing the girl who looks like me. There’s not enough to hide behind.
“The further removed the character is from my own, the more fun and easier it is.”

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Renee Zellweger, 39, says she has no plans to have kids.

“Motherhood has never been an ambition,” she tells London’s The Times. “I never have expectations like, ‘When I’m 19 I’m going to do this, and by the time I’ve hit 25, I’m going to do that’.

“I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen, all well and good,” she added. “I just want to be independent and be able to take care of myself. Anything else is just gravy.”

Zellweger refused to talk about her brief marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney, but she wasn’t secretive when it came to her reported romance with her Leatherheads director and co-star George Clooney (who was once held at gunpoint).

“I did see a recent magazine article in which George said that he and I had been girlfriend-boyfriend ‘a little bit’,” Zellweger says. “But what the hell is that? ‘A little bit?’ I’m not sure if I should be insulted or not!”

Zellweger — who says she maintains her svelte physique by running “every day” — insists his comments were misconstrued.

“I think he was asked if he liked me and said, ‘A little bit,’” she says. “Don’t you connect me with that man! I’d deny it until I die,” she jokes.

Adds Zellweger, “Actually, who the hell am I kidding? Scrap all that; do connect me with George Clooney. Connect me with him as much as possible!”

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Don’t let that Oscar fool you!

Renee Zellweger “has no talent,” according to close buddy and Leatherheads co-star George Clooney.

“You know what the problem is? She has no talent. And she’s not cute,” the perennial jokester quips to Parade.com. “And it was very hard for me to work with her.”

Not that hard. Getting serious, the Oscar-winning hunk says Renee is exactly the opposite. “She’s smart. She can do anything. She can deliver a punch line with the best of them. And she’s one of the sweetest, nicest people on earth. And she’s a dear friend.”

Renee can’t help but say the same for George, 46, who also directed the 1920s football romantic comedy.

“Just as you’d expect, he’s funny and witty,” she tells Parade.com.

But George still knows when it’s time to get down to work, getting “very focused” on set when it was time to yell “Action!”

“He has the process of a filmmaker, who’s much more seasoned than he is, like someone who’s been doing this for 35 years, not five,” the 38-year-old actress says.

And how about that smooch between the two in the film?

“That’s the one thing I can’t remember,” George says.

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Renée Zellweger and George Clooney have been pals for a long time – long enough, it seems, that even wise-cracking about their personal lives comes easy.

In a new interview with the U.K. edition of Marie Claire, the pair – who costar together in the new movie Leatherheads – have a good laugh about their views on marriage.

“We’ve both been very successful at it,” Clooney joked. (He’s divorced, and Zellweger annulled her marriage to Kenny Chesney after four months).

The pair have been friends for ten years and they’ve been romantically linked in the past, prompting Zellweger, 38, to joke: “We’re married! Didn’t you hear? The baby’s coming in July. Why do you think I’m wearing this baggy jacket?”

In all seriousness, though, she thinks Clooney, 46, is a “good man,” saying: “It’s just his natural disposition … he does the right thing, it’s almost a disease with him. I know it’s shocking in this day and age that there’s no scandal. He’s just nice and he works very, very hard.”

‘One of My Dearest Friends’
Clooney, twice named People’s Sexiest Man Alive, was similarly effusive about Zellweger, describing her as “one of my dearest friends.” As the writer and director of the 1920s football comedy Leatherheads, Clooney says he felt under pressure as well.

“When Renee commits, it greenlights a movie. So, there’s a responsibility, as the director of this film, not to screw up my friend,” Clooney said. Zellweger chimed in: “And I reminded him daily. ‘Don’t screw this up for me, man.’”

Zellweger, meanwhile, has nothing but praise for Clooney, her director and costar, although she admitted feeling the pressure when she realized her part in Leatherheads was written for her by Clooney.

“I was terrified,” she says. “I didn’t want to be the one who sucked in his movie. You’d much rather disappoint someone you’re not going to see again.”

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