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Catherine Zeta-Jones Walks Us Down Memory Lane

Festivals 7 December 2024 1:58

Catherine Zeta-Jones expressed her love for cinema and wished she had been born during Hollywood’s Golden Age

She reflected on her journey, including working with Omar Sharif, who inspired her as a young girl

Catherine Zeta-Jones also talked about her experience working on Chicago, which earned her an Academy Award

She discussed the potential challenges her children may face in the industry due to their family background

From the interview

Full transcript · English

I work with Omar Sharif years ago and it was one of those when you've grown up looking at these men and women on the big screen and you go oh I didn't work with them if I could even just meet them and then when you do meet them they're as collaborative and as kind and as generous that's what it's all about you learn but I learned a lot through that born in the wrong era I should have been born in the golden age of Hollywood I should have been dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly those movies will never be made again because when musicals are good they're very very good and when they're bad they're awful wow for me to put on film that's there forever everything that I worked for as a young woman everything that I sacrificed some of my childhood for because of my passion and love for will be put on on cellular and on celluloid and then he said what do you want to play I said well I can't think of doing Chicago without singing all that jazz and and so my Velma Kelly was born and it was an experience that I will never forget not only because of the fruits of our labor but it was so well received on an international level and I was fortunate to win an academy award for it yes because they are the son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and the grandkids of Kirk Douglas who was a Hollywood great you know so yes they will be may have to work a little bit harder and overcome you know people who have an idea that they're privileged because they're they were born to acting a working acting family but I'll never do think I would never question anyone's dreams especially my children's

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