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    Catherine Zeta-Jones believes "we can all relate" to the Addams family's "dynamic"

    The 55-year-old actress plays Morticia Addams in Wednesday, the hit Netflix show, and Catherine believes the Addams family are "absolutely grounded in truth"


    She told TODAY.com: "That's one of the wonderful things about the family dynamic within the show Wednesday is that we can all relate to that. Because I think that, as per Tim (Burton) notes, we keep these characters real. We're not caricatures. We're real people."

    Morticia is often perceived to be a constant critic of her daughter, Wednesday. However, Catherine believes the mother-daughter relationship is more nuanced than some viewers acknowledge.

    The actress - who is married to Hollywood icon Michael Douglas - said: "There's a part of Morticia that wants Wednesday to be exactly how she is. There's a strength to this young woman. She has all the outcast attributes and the abilities that are part of Morticia's world, but there's a defiance that Morticia never had that Wednesday has."

    Earlier this month, Catherine heaped praise on Jenna Ortega, describing her co-star as "amazing".

    The actress praised Jenna's professional approach to their sword fight scene on the show.

    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, 22, made time in her busy schedule so that they could prepare properly for the scene.

    Catherine 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 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."

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