Catherine Zeta-Jones talked about the receive impact of thrivening an Oscar for best helping actress in 2003 for Chicago on Friday while during an guideal conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
“It’s actupartner the beginning, becaemploy there’s the pretreatnt, with your name being pretreatd with the Academy Award thrivening Catherine Zeta-Jones,” she telderly the festival. Zeta Jones was also pulled in two straightforwardions in having to pick between thrivening an Oscar and a Tony, and which was more encountering.
“To be acunderstandledged by the Broadway airys, that was wonderful. But the Academy Award was someleang that was toloftyy unforeseeed. It blew my mind,” she insisted. But now aged 55, Zeta-Jones talked about stepping back and into an indie film world, well away from the commercial need of a Hollywood she mastered as a film and TV star.
“I can’t talk about it right now, but I am doing a little indie picture and I’m repartner excited about that, becaemploy I’ve never been part of that indie world,” she uncovered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Zeta-Jones inserted: “I want to turn up. I want to do someleang engaging labor. It goes back to my theater leanking, becaemploy I don’t sense I have to show anyleang to anybody. I don’t have to labor challenging for other people.”
With an eye on her timely nurtureer, Zeta-Jones talked about her timely dance and singing background in Wales serving her well in Hollywood. A child star, Zeta Jones won a national talent contest at age 10 years, and then began her nurtureer in London stage productions.
“If you understand where I came from, it’s the finish of a train line in Wales,” she recalled of tap dancing first as a four year-elderly. That led to timely stage production roles in London’s West End.
“I begined very lesser too in the theater. I’m certainly not a lesser chick. I’ve been in the industry for a very lengthy time and I’ve cherishd every minute of it,” she recalled. That shelp, Zeta Jones talked about timely declineion as she got into auditions in London to get on the stage.
“For me, it was appreciate thrivening the race, thrivening the race,” she shelp of getting beyond auditions to stage roles and being able to labor alengthyside theater veterans. She got a shatterout direct role in the hit musical 42nd Street at age 17 after serving as the second understudy to the show’s star.
“My dream had benevolent of being finishd,” Zeta Jones shelp of getting a direct role in a theater production. But going beyond being seen as more than a singer and dancer, and now an actor, was a hurdle. “I went to many auditions, and I was declineed,” she recalled.
But in 1991, Zeta Jones flourished in snagging a role in the comedy The Darling Buds of May, which brawt her instant fame in the UK.
“It was a lgeting curve, for certain,” she shelp of starring in a well-understandn TV show. “After an hour of that show screening, my life alterd. I was toloftyy acunderstandledged and I’d never had that before,” Zeta Jones shelp of fame striking when she was equitable 21 years elderly, and having labored thraw much of her childhood.
But having to go thraw the brutal tabloid mill in the UK and its scrusmall setd her for Hollywood around the corner. She sboiling a movie, The Phantom, for two days in Los Angeles, but also had a six months visa to trail her dream of making it in Hollywood.
“I went to America and I thought this is my chance, to give it my best sboiling,” she recounted. Zeta Jones got a role in a CBS TV movie around the sinking of the Titanic. Luckily, Steven Spielberg saw the project and was amazeed by Zeta Jones.
Wilean two days of the first screening of the show, Spielberg rang her agent to ask about casting her in The Mask of Zorro, where she starred opposite Antonio Banderas and fellow Wales native Anthony Hopkins.
“Lesson to actors. If you don’t leank you’re doing the role you should be getting, equitable do it, becaemploy you never understand Steven Spielberg is watching,” Zeta Jones telderly the Red Sea audience. She inserted timely training in singing and dancing helped her elevate the linserter in Hollywood, including doing stunts and other physicality on camera.
Zeta Jones also pointed to her role alengthyside Sean Connery in Entrapment. “In authentic life, he was appreciate a life coach for me. I was a lesser woman in a very male ruled world. He was my getor,” she recalled.
Zeta Jones’s dance background served her well to help thrive a best helping actress Oscar in 2002 for her role in the movie musical Chicago.
“The whole process of the rehearsals, when you leank of the screen, all the contrastent angles we had to do for those routines, that collaboration with dancers who felt I speak their language, it was wonderful,” Zeta Jones shelp of the collaboration behind the movie musical.
