More than two decades since Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones bagged her only Academy Award, for the portrayal of nightclub singer Velma Kelly, in the crime musical ‘Chicago’, the Welsh actor returns to singing and dancing on-screen, for her role of Morticia Addams, in the new season of Netflix’s hit dark comedy series, ‘Wednesday’.
But, according to Zeta-Jones, it all came very ‘organically’ to her.
“I didn’t suggest a dance. I didn’t just have to suggest a song or, from my Zorro days, a sword fence,” she told a foreign publication, in a new interview. “It was all kind of organically put in.”
“In that it doesn’t go, ‘Oh, she did Chicago. Let’s give her a song and a dance,” said Zeta-Jones, who covers Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Bad Moon Rising’, alongside Billie Piper, in episode 3 of ‘Wednesday’ S2.
“Me singing as Morticia Adams was wonderful, how to pronounce the words, the emotion that comes up from the song that we sing. Also, I got to sing with Billie Piper, who is wonderful,” she explained. “The dance with Luis (Guzmán – her on-screen husband) was so organic to Gomez [Addams] and Morticia.”
“And then the sword fight between my daughter Wednesday, where we emotionally and verbally are duelling throughout the whole season, as sometimes teenage mother-daughters do, to put that into the movement was just genius,” she added.
Jenna Ortega’s ‘Wednesday’ renewed for season 3
Notably, the first half of ‘Wednesday’ season 2 premiered on Netflix on Wednesday, August 6, whereas the remaining four episodes of Jenna Ortega-led supernatural comedy series’ second instalment are slated to arrive on the streaming platform on September 3.
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