“I don’t take it in a very gracious way.
And it’s only something that comes from experience.”
In addition to her enduring career, Zeta-Jones balances motherhood and her marriage to a fellow A-lister.
“I’m sick of being humble.
Enough,” she said.
“All that is important to me now is my work.
It’s all good, and I’m not going to be humble for that either.”
“I wasn’t shy.
As I got older, I got shy.
But when I was young, I was fearless.”
Her mother decided to encourage her “performy” side and reached out to a local dance teacher.
“At four years old, my mother bought me tap shoes.
I put them on, she tied them up, and that was it,” Zeta-Jones recalled.
The future Oscar winner’s dance career only took off from there.
She picked up ballet lessons, and at age 11, she won a national tap dance competition.
As she toldLarry Kingyears later, “I’m a good tap dancer.”
When she was 17, Zeta-Jones starred in West End’s production of “42nd Street.”
“A year later, I did a very successful UK series called ‘The Darling Buds of May.’
The first episode aired on a Sunday night; on Monday morning, my life changed.
I couldn’t even ride the tube.”
“I didn’t want to be a celebrity; I want to be an actor.”
“Ironically, after we wrapped, Michael went to a private screening of Zorro in Hollywood.
“So that film did not just change my career, it changed my life entirely.”
After sending a bouquet of roses to her in Scotland, the two eventually started dating.
In a 2022 interview with Extra (viaHello!
), Zeta-Jones gushed about her longtime partner.
“I lucked out big time,” she said.
“He’s a wonderful husband.
He’s a wonderful father.
He happens to be a wonderful actor.
But for us, he’s just Michael.”
In 2002,T-Mobileannounced their partnership with Zeta-Jones.
As a result, Zeta-Jones made regular appearances in multiple T-Mobile commercials from the early 2000s.
Zeta-Jones' partnership with T-Mobile was pretty good to her pocketbook.
T-Mobile decided to part ways with Zeta-Jones in 2006.
She reprised her role as a T-Mobile spokeswoman in 2009.
In 2003, she was nominated for her first Oscar.
At the 75th Academy Awards, she took home the award for best actress in a supporting role.
We were right there, down in the trenches,” she told theHartford Courant.
“It was a lot of fun.
A lot of painful fun.”
What’s more, Zeta-Jones helped shape the character’s aesthetic.
“For me, when I saw Velma Kelly, I saw that blunt, Louise Brooks look.
… You know, as an actor, you know the period.
They didn’t have beach waves, you know, in 1930s Chicago,” she iterated.
“And I won that battle.”
In 2010, Zeta-Jones toldExpressthat being a mother wasn’t always a part of her plan.
“It was scary becoming a mother it’s the unknown.
I was 30 when I had my first.”
Despite her initial fears, Zeta-Jones embraced motherhood.
“They know what celebritydom is.
After starring in “The Rebound” in 2009, Zeta-Jones wouldn’t return to the screen until 2012.
This was partly due to the immediate emergencies she had to tend to in her personal life.
In 2010, her husband, Michael Douglas, was diagnosed with tongue cancer.
While Douglas would eventually overcome his condition, Zeta-Jones received a diagnosis of her own in the following year.
“My daughter is 10, my son is 12, and these are such precious years to me.
You never get them back,” she stated.
It had better be fun.
Otherwise, to be honest with you, I would prefer to stay at home.”
I’m really looking forward to finding the right thing, you know," she said.
“So I feel very blessed I can wait that out.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones was one such movie star.
In 2020, the Oscar winner unveiled lifestyle and beauty lines through her brand, Casa Zeta-Jones.
The brand was first launched in 2017 as homeware line, and it has since expanded.
“So we just put everything on hold.”
We were very sympathetic of the time we live in," she said.
In addition to shoes and housewares, Zeta-Jones' brand includes everything from makeup products to activewear.
She was pleased as can be to take on the role of “The Addams Family” matriarch.
As a self-described history buff, Zeta-Jones quickly accepted the role of Billie Pearce.
They went, ‘We know.
That is so cool mama!'"
