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Catherine Zeta-Jones says the heavens opened up and encouraged her to act after she chose to use her Welsh accent in ‘Kill Jackie.’ In this video, she call her turn in the leading role a liberating experience.

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00:00And once I get the accent down, then I start to prep it. I prep it, prep it, prep it.
00:03I do, like, drills all the time.
00:06But for Jackie, when I decided to make her Welsh, it was like, the heavens opened up and a rail
00:14light came down and said,
00:16Act, child. Act. Don't worry about the gremlins of accents.
00:24Don't you dare. No one knows any, no one knows better than you who Jackie Price is.
00:30Because she's from Wales, and you know, a hundred Jackie Price is.
00:34Which I do. And so it was a liberating feeling. It was, I felt rounded as an actor.
00:44I did get pulled out of it because I was wondering about the R's in an American or the Scottish
00:50accent like that.
00:51I'm like, when I speak Scottish, it's not as hard as Welsh, but it's pretty tricky.
00:56But it was liberating.

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