‘Wednesday’ Star Catherine Zeta-Jones Wants Danny DeVito to Play Cousin It: ‘He’s Gonna Kill Me for That’
How does “Wednesday” top its Season 2 guest appearance of Lady Gaga?
With Danny DeVito, says Catherine Zeta-Jones, who stars as Morticia on the Netflix series.
Zeta-Jones’ husband, Michael Douglas, and DeVito have been friends for decades.
“I don’t know how Danny DeVito hasn’t been cast already,” Zeta-Jones told me Sunday at the “Wednesday” FYC event at the Netflix Tudum Theater in Hollywood. “I was with him for our birthday in September and I was like, ‘Why isn’t Danny DeVito in “Wednesday?”’
She also said, “Imagine Danny DeVito as Cousin It? That’d be so cool.”
Now, it’s just a matter of the “Chicago” Oscar-winner suggesting the role to DeVito: “He’s gonna kill me for that. He’s like, ‘Yeah, they’re going to cast me and put hair all over my face. Thanks for suggesting that, Catherine.’”
Zeta-Jones also offered up her reaction when she heard Lady Gaga was set to film her appearance. “It was top secret. I don’t tell Michael. I don’t tell my kids,” she said. “I’m a good girl, right? I don’t tell anybody. I had to deal with the fact that when it did get released, my family looked at me and were like, ‘I can’t believe you, that we’re the last people to know about Gaga.’”
She said she was like a “17-year-old groupie” when she saw Gaga. “I truly believe that she is a generational talent. I am so happy that I got to meet and I’d love to work with her more on something else,” Zeta-Jones said.
Cast and crew will reunite next year to film Season 3. Zeta-Jones hasn’t seen any scripts yet, but hopes to find out more about Morticia’s dynamic with her mother, played by Joanna Lumley, and how it affects her relationship with Wednesday. “I hope that Wednesday snaps out of it next season,” Zeta-Jones said. “It’s like enough already. She can’t demonize her mother anymore.”
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