Premiering December 14th on Disney+ is the brand new collection ‘National Treasure: Edge of History,’ which is a continuation of the ‘National Treasure’ movie collection starring Nicolas Cage.
With a pilot directed by Mira Nair (‘Mississippi Masala’), the brand new collection stars Lisette Olivera, Lyndon Smith, Zuri Reed, Jake Austin Walker, Antonio Cipriano, Jordan Rodrigues, and Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The collection will even see the return of film franchise actors Justin Bartha as Riley Poole, and Harvey Keitel as FBI agent Peter Sadusky.
Moviefone just lately had the pleasure of talking with Catherine Zeta-Jones about her work on ‘National Treasure: Edge of History,’ why she needed to be a part of the collection, and why followers of the flicks will take pleasure in the brand new present.
Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in Disney+’s ‘National Treasure: Edge of History.’
You can learn our full interview under or click on on the video participant above to look at our interviews with Zeta-Jones, Lisette Olivera, Lyndon Smith, Zuri Reed, Jake Austin Walker, Antonio Cipriano, and Jordan Rodrigues.
Moviefone: To start with, at this level in your profession, what intrigued you about enjoying this function and becoming a member of this collection?
Catherine Zeta-Jones: Well, I like the unique motion pictures, the franchise, and it sort of lends into what I like to do. I’m a historical past buff myself. I’m always on the hunt for locating some treasure in some flea market someplace on the earth. That’s what I love to do when I’m not performing. The thought of enjoying a personality like Billie Pearce with this new injection of youth and likewise at 20-years on, I imply, the know-how that one can use to trace these treasures was simply intriguing.
Like you stated, at this level in my profession, I wish to work on an excellent challenge with an excellent firm like Disney, and work with some actually nice actors and have enjoyable. Everything is a bonus for me. I like to work. I like the camaraderie of being on a set on these enjoyable initiatives. With a collection like this, we have now 10 hours to discover a character, to indicate the nuances and to take the viewers on this type of rollercoaster journey, and it is enjoyable.
Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in Disney+’s ‘National Treasure: Edge of History.’
MF: Finally, the collection options many connections to the unique movie collection. Do you assume followers of the flicks will take pleasure in the brand new present?
CZJ: I hope so. I believe that we’ve not misplaced all of the totally different components that made them so nice. First of all, we have now the unique writers, so it is their imaginative and prescient of what occurs subsequent. The collection has all the weather. It has the humor, it has the intrigue, it has the journey. I believe audiences as we speak, and I communicate for myself, there’s a lot dangerous happening on the earth. We wish to be taken out of actuality and brought on an journey if we’re going to make investments anytime sitting in entrance of our tv screens. That’s the best way we’re as a household. I believe this has all the weather that an viewers, a household, will love as a result of it is a generational piece.
My niece, who’s eight years outdated, can watch it with my children who’re of their 20s, and me and my husband, and my mother. It’s an incredible household journey. I believe as audiences, we love that. There’s one thing very comforting about it, and likewise very comforting for our era. But once I informed my children I used to be doing the collection, I had this long-winded clarification concerning the plot. They went, “Are you talking about ‘National Treasure?’” I stated, “You know it?” So, I used to be behind, and a bit gradual. So, that is enjoyable. It’s not reinventing the wheel, it is taking the wheel and taking it on one other journey in the identical world, however simply totally different.
‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ premieres December 14th on Disney+.