MOTHER OF ALL ROLES

Catherine Zeta-Jones on going viral in Wednesday - and what she and Morticia Addams have in common as parents

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Catherine Zeta-Jones is back in magnificent form as the gothic matriarch Morticia Addams and she's making the most of it.

At the London premiere of the second season of Netflix's drama Wednesday last month, she turned heads in a plunging black dress teamed with spider-shaped ear jewellery.

"It's become such a phenomenon. I'm thrilled to be part of it," says the Welsh-born actress of her leading role in Tim Burton's spin-off from The Addams Family.

The show marks a career revival for Catherine, 55, who became famous as a teenager in the TV series The Darling Buds of May before leaving the UK for Hollywood.

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Having starred in Entrapment opposite Sean Connery and in The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas, she won an Academy Award in 2002, when she was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Velma Kelly in Chicago.

At the London premiere, she appeared on the red carpet alongside the US star Jenna Ortega, who plays her daughter, Wednesday, and Dame Joanna Lumley, who plays her mother, Hester Frump. It's the first time the two British actresses have worked together, and Catherine has said: "It was everything [I hoped for] and more." And she seems to have had real chemistry with her co-star Luis Guzmán, who plays Morticia's husband, Gomez Addams, referring to him as "darling" and "my boy", and describing their onscreen marriage "as the love affair of the century".

At one point, Morticia and Gomez embark on a camping trip, something the actress says she would never do with her real-life husband, the actor Michael Douglas, 80, and their children, Dylan, 25, and Carys, 22.