In a figure-hugging off-white dress with futuristic shoulder pads, Catherine Zeta-Jones shone at the
Wednesday
series premiere on Nov. 16.
The 53-year-old actress accessorized her outfit with diamond studded earrings and a gold and diamond encrusted ring.
Her long dress did not show her shoes.
Catherine Zeta-Jones lights up the red carpet in a plunging mermaid gown
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In the series of which Tim Burton is one of the directors, the actress embodies Morticia Addams, a role which had previously been held by Carolyn Jones in the original series of 1964 and by Anjelica Huston in the film
The Addams Family
(1991).
Christina Ricci, who starred as Wednesday in the aforementioned comedy as well as its 1993 sequel, will make an appearance in this new round of episodes.
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This prequel to the series
The Addams Family
, which will be released on November 23 on Netflix, chronicles the high school years of Wednesday Addams, played by Jenna Ortega, a student at Nevermore Academy.
The young woman will try to adapt to the other students, while investigating a series of murders that terrorized the city.
Wednesday
's mother
is certainly not the central character of this new series, but the actress of
Chicago
(2002), glamorous, slender and with jet black hair, is nonetheless perfectly cut out for the role.
