Yahoo Sports At 53, Catherine Zeta-Jones Gets Raw About Aging: ‘I Don’t Take a Lot of Sh*t’
Catherine Zeta-Jones shared how aging has empowered her not to “take a lot of sh*t from people.”
“It’s only something that comes from being 53,” she said.
The actress is celebrating two new roles in Wednesday and National Treasure: Edge of History.
They say aging comes with wisdom, and according to Catherine Zeta-Jones, it also comes with a special type of empowerment.
“Something about getting older was that I don’t take a lot of sh*t from people,” she candidly told InStyle in a recent interview. “Not that I’m snappy, or that I’m looking for sh*t from people. I just don’t take it, and I don’t take it in a very gracious way. And it’s only something that comes from experience and it’s only something that comes from being 53.”
The actress is currently celebrating her back-to-back roles as Morticia Addams in Netflix’s breakout hit Wednesday and as Billie Pearce in Disney+’s new National Treasure series (in which she rocks a blonde bob). The dramatic re-entrance wasn’t intentional, she told InStyle. (“People would be sick of me,” she joked.) The opportunities simply fell in her lap at around the same time. And she couldn’t be happier about it.
“I’m hoping that they continue with Wednesday’s story forever, so I can grow old playing Morticia,” she said. “I mean, nothing would make me more happy than to be 80 years old and still playing Morticia.”
Even if they don’t, she admits that this phase of her career has brought with it kind of a “pinch me” feeling. “I really feel now that there’s a different chapter ahead of me, and it’s exciting to see what happens next,” she added. “My dreams have come true, and everything else now is a bonus for me.”
Jones has previously opened up about her learned and earned self-confidence, which wasn’t always there for her as a young actress. In 2021, she told The Sydney Morning Herald that she was often intimidated by roles that were described as “beautiful” or “gorgeous.” But she faked it ’til she made it.
“There’s a confidence I’ve sometimes had to put on when I walk down a red carpet. I have my insecurities like every other woman. But as I’ve got older, I’ve got much more confident about the way I look,” she said.
And she believes all women should do whatever they need to find similar inner peace. “I am all for whatever makes you happy,” she explained. “There are so many treatments now that don’t make you look like you’ve just stepped off Mars, so it goes back to self-confidence. An inner confidence is very empowering for women. Whatever that takes, do it.”
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