London, February 28: Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger braved the freezing conditions, and got her hair short to deal with the icy weather, when she was filming her new flick `New In Town in Winnipeg, Canada.

She describes her experience of filming in such severe weather in the region as shocking.

"It was like working on the moon. Most people don''t even know what below 47 (Fahrenheit) feels like. You freeze to death in two minutes," the Daily Express quoted her as saying.

"It was so cold we launched an entire new vocabulary. Your face is so frozen that you''ll be filming and you don''t know that you''ve been tearing up until your eyelashes are frozen together. We called those ''lashcicles'', then the guys had ''beardcicles''," she added.

Telling as to why she decided to radically change her hairstyle in the freezing conditions, she said: "You can''t do your hair three times a day with a Marcel (straightening) iron every day for three months without it looking like a big cotton candy puff. So I had to cut it." (ANI)