{"id":781644,"date":"2026-09-25T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781644\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:44:09","slug":"catherine-zeta-jones-bases-kill-jackie-role-on-people-she-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781644\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Zeta-Jones bases Kill Jackie role on people she knows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones says she based her performance in the new series Kill Jackie on people she knows in Wales.<\/p>\n

The Mumbles star plays Jackie Price, a former cocaine dealer who is being targeted by hitmen, in a new series for Prime.<\/p>\n

It is the first time she has played a role using her Swansea accent and the first time she has filmed a drama in Wales.<\/p>\n

“I played on people I know in Wales, people who are comedic and the accent makes it funny and real and true, but the character comes from a tough side of Swansea, which we do have as well,” she said.<\/p>\n

The series is based on a book called The Price You Pay, set in the US, and the central character is a man called Jack.<\/p>\n

Zeta-Jones said they “flipped it” for her to be a woman with all the quirkiness and craziness that Jack had in the book.<\/p>\n

She said: “I told my creative team, I want to play her Welsh. And they went OK.”<\/p>\n

“For many reasons. One, I’ve never played real Welsh Swansea ever, never shot in Wales and I think it would ground me in her character and add nuances that I would know,” she told Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m so glad I did it because she’s such a great character and I just wanted her to be Welsh.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones says she based her performance in the new series Kill Jackie on people she knows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}