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Catherine Zeta-Jones hails ‘amazing’ Jenna Ortega

Death of a Unicorn’s director relieved to cast Jenna Ortega before Wednesday's premiere

Catherine Zeta-Jones thinks Jenna Ortega is “amazing”.

Jenna Ortega stars in Wednesday

The 55-year-old actress stars alongside Jenna, 22, in the new season of Wednesday, and Catherine has praised her co-star’s professional approach to their sword fight scene.

She told People: “We did rehearse it. It’s like choreography and stunts.

“You know, we have to be careful. These are real weapons we’re working with.”

Catherine observed that Jenna made time in her busy schedule so that they could prepare properly for the scene.

The actress – who plays Morticia Addams on the hit Netflix show – said: “She’d find time in her schedule, which is a much bigger schedule than mine, to come and rehearse with me, and then we worked it with the stunt coordinator, and it turned out really fabulous.”

Catherine has also praised Luis Guzman, who plays Gomez Addams, for his pre-shoot preparations.

The duo teamed-up to perform a tango, and Catherine revealed that Luis “just really worked hard”.

She shared: “We used to rehearse the four scenes outside, dodging the rain, sometimes in Ireland, in gravel to keep it every day, to keep it fresh. Because, of course, we learned it at the beginning of the show. We weren’t shooting it for weeks, three months later. So to keep it fresh and to remember our moves every now and again, we just jump together and we do it. And we laughed.”

Meanwhile, Jenna previously revealed that she became an “unhappy…

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