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THE TALE-TELLER OF LAKELAND; A century after the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, children's author Beatrix Potter is brought to life on screen by Renee Zellweger. Garth Pearce meets the Texan actress on set.

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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20061224
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Byline: GARTH PEARCE

Renee Zellweger slips out of her hotel room at dawn, a slim figure in a grey tracksuit. She crosses the seafront road in Douglas, Isle of Man, where she is filming. Her early-morning run is part of the intensely focused routine she follows when filming. The American actress has twice played the very British Bridget Jones; now she is not only playing a British character once more, but an icon of English literature. The life of Beatrix Potter, who died on 22 December 1943 at the age of 77, has been tracked, recorded and dissected by an army of fans and ...

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