An interview with... Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine the great
From childhood dreams of seeing her name up in lights to award-winning performances on Broadway and superstardom, Catherine Zeta-Jones appears to have it all, says Gabrielle Donnelly. So how does she juggle all that with her role as doting mother and holding her own in the iconic Douglas dynasty?
When actress Catherine
Zeta-Jones became a mother, she became extra picky about her work.
"My attitude to my career has changed completely," the
newly appointed CBE told me not so long ago. "I'm still an
actress, of course, but these days, I'm an actress second and
wife and mother first. The time I have with my kids is just so
precious and it goes by so fast - I know I'll never have it
back, and I want to make the very most of enjoying it.
"Before Michael and the kids came along, if somebody said to me, 'There's a film shooting in Romania, do you want to be in it?' I'd just say, 'OK, what time's the flight?' These days, there are all the logistics of the kids' schools and everyone else's schedules to consider, so I do think a bit before I accept roles. Don't get me wrong, my passion for acting will never change. But these days, it's not, 'Oh, I've got to go to work', it's, 'I want to go to work.' But it has to be something I'm really passionate about to take me out of an environment that is precious to me."
In actual fact, it is three years since Catherine's last major film, the romantic comedy No Reservations. And her new film, The Rebound, also explores the theme of romance with Catherine playing a divorcee and mother of two who starts a new life in New York City where she falls in love with a New Yorker, breaks up with him and, at the end of the movie, gets back together with him once again. At the time of writing, Catherine has yet to state exactly what it was about this particular film that caught her attention. But it is proto-typical of her dry, sly sense of humour that, in The Rebound, her on-screen love interest is 15 years younger than her character - a neat little twist on the fact that (as has been all-too-often commented on) her real life husband, Michael Douglas, happens to be, to the very day, 25 years older than she is.
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