Catherine Zeta-Jones credit Steven Spielberg for altering the course of her life.
The 55-year-old actress admits that the legendary filmmaker has performed an instrumental position in her profession, casting her within the 1998 Western film The Masks of Zorro, which Spielberg government produced.
Throughout an look on The Drew Barrymore Present, Catherine defined: “I bear in mind being within the TV sequence of Titanic, which isn’t the Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet one, nevertheless it was okay. I wanted the job.
“And, Steven Spielberg occurred to be watching TV on a Sunday evening and went, ‘Oh, who’s she? Perhaps she needs to be good in Zorro.’ I get a name the subsequent week [to] go and meet the director Martin Campbell.”
Catherine – who’s married to Hollywood star Michael Douglas – defined that she was “on a aircraft to Mexico” inside a couple of days.
The actress continued: “Subsequent few days, I used to be display screen testing with the beautiful Antonio Banderas and my outdated dwelling nation icon Anthony Hopkins, who directed me in a play once I was 18 years outdated, and there I used to be and I believed to myself, ‘If this ends proper now, this has simply been a dream come true.’ After which I obtained the job and it modified my life.”
Drew – who starred in Spielberg’s 1982 movie, E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial – then mentioned: “So are we saying that Steven Spielberg modified each of our lives? Okay, thank God for Steven Spielberg.”
In the meantime, Rachel Zegler not too long ago revealed that she feels “indebted” to Spielberg.
The 24-year-old actress – who’s presently starring in Evita in London’s West Finish – took to social media to heap reward on the legendary filmmaker, who beforehand forged her in West Aspect Story, the 2021 romantic-drama film.
Alongside a sequence of throwback photographs of herself and Spielberg, Rachel wrote on Instagram: “we had a really particular visitor @officialevita final weekend — a person who believed in me when i used to be 17 which explains i used to be ushered into the various alternatives i’ve been blessed with to this point. seven years later and he’s nonetheless so supportive of each enterprise, and that i couldn’t be extra grateful. steven spielberg, you modified my life. (sic)”
Rachel admitted that she’s greater than grateful for Spielberg’s assist and help.
The actress continued: “i could by no means be actually capable of return the favor, however i hope a efficiency of “rainbow excessive” once in a while provides you some consolation in figuring out i’m taking good care of the profession (kristie and) you’ve so graciously given me. grateful isn’t the proper phrase. indebted, possibly. you get the image. [heart emoji] (sic)”