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 Catherine Zeta-Jones
Spotlight By: Rocco Passafuime
Catherine Zeta-Jones is one of Hollywood’s most gorgeous actors. Making her breakthrough appearance in 1998’s The Mask Of Zorro, Catherine has gone on to great success with notable roles in films like The Haunting, Traffic, and America’s Sweethearts. In 2003, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Velma Kelly in the film adaptation of the musical Chicago. Her latest role is as perfectionist chef Kate Armstrong in the film No Reservations. First to discuss with the now-37-year old actress is whether her character’s ambition is palatable to her own. “I think that I wasn’t like Kate in the way that she was so blinkered in her career and how she goes about it,” Catherine claims, “But I’ve always said I had a healthy ambition, I call it, where I did want to come from Wales, where I tried different things, going to London, do theater, try to do some TV. I did, I had that inherently. But I wouldn’t say that I was such a control freak, the way that Kate is or that there’s nothing else in my life. I have my friends, I have my other life as well as my career.” No Reservations is a Hollywood remake of the 2001 German film Mostly Martha, directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. Important to touch on was whether or not the actress had seen the original film and what her thoughts on it was. “I think Sandra, the director, did a fantastic job creating that environment in her movie,” she says, “And I did see the movie and after, actually, I read the script, I loved the script so much, I’m like, I can’t resist that I have to see the movie.” Interesting, however, is what finally convinced her to see Mostly Martha in the first place. “A guy who works with me that is not a film buff, he brought the DVD and I put it on the kitchen table and not a film buff at all, he said have you seen that movie and I went no,” Zeta-Jones recalls, “He said, ‘Oh, it’s great!’ I said, ‘I wonder how on Earth a guy from Bermuda, half-Portuguese sees this German movie Mostly Martha, he said it came to this small little film festival. We just happened to be there, cued up, went in there, saw and I said, ‘Well, if you loved it,” He’s a big old burly gardener from Portugal, “If you loved it as much as I loved the script, I can’t resist. I have to see it once. I saw it once, I put it away, and I never saw it again.” Hollywood remakes of foreign films often have a tradition of being altered for varying reasons, from pacing purposes to cultural idiosyncrasies. Catherine stressed that despite her love for the original movie, she did not seek to emulate the actress that played the German version of Kate when she did the Hollywood version. “I think on a character basis, ... |
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