Wednesday's Jenna Ortega, Joanna Lumley and Catherine Zeta-Jones star on this week's Radio Times
Meet the spooky, kooky women of the Addams family – Joanna Lumley joins Jenna Ortega and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Tim Burton's hit series.
American TV and film productions have always hired British actors to appear in their big dramas and comedies. Why? Perhaps it's because we produce some of the most talented actors in the business – although there was a weird period when every villain in a Hollywood movie had to be British with a cut-glass Rada accent.
These days Brits are allowed to play Americans, which is progress. This week we talk to two women who are doing just that – Catherine Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for playing an American in Chicago, and national treasure Joanna Lumley.
They both feature in Tim Burton's spin-off from the Addams Family films – Netflix's Wednesday, which also stars the young American actress Jenna Ortega. But it's the interplay between Zeta-Jones's Morticia Addams and Lumley as her mother, Hester Frump, that steals this show.
Read our interviews with the three actors inside this week's issue.
Also, don't miss our chat with comedian, musician, actor and dancer Bill Bailey, who has lost count of the number of instruments that he can play. An extremely talented man, surely Hollywood will be calling soon.
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Also in this week's Radio Times:
- A new natural history series Parenthood focuses on how animals from spiders to killer whales raise their young.
- From comedy actor to leading man to wise-cracking presenter – is there any role Stephen Mangan can't play?
- Suranne Jones gives a first look at her role as British PM in the Netflix thriller Hostage.
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