Catherine Zeta-Jones has most recently been seen taking on the iconic role of Morticia Addams in Netflix series Wednesday. Now the actress is joining another much loved franchise as part of the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History. Based on the Nicolas Cage National Treasure movies, the series will pick up as a spiritual sequel to the franchise that was last seen on screen back in 2007’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Zeta-Jones joins the new cast as antagonist Billie Pearce, a black market dealer in antiquities who will do anything to get her hands on one particular relic. While speaking to ScreenRant recently, Zeta-Jones explained what it was like taking on the role. She said:

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“It was always fun to have an antagonist role. As an actor, you can go all over the place. What was interesting for me, which is something that rarely happened in the whole of my career, is that I didn’t know exactly how it was going to end. I read three episodes, and then we started shooting. The scripts were being done, obviously, but they were being-fine tuned as we were shooting. I’d never done that before. Even in the series I’ve done before, I’d known the ending. This added that ambiguity to it, which for me as an actor was great. Yeah, I play a badass. She’s dark, and she’s a little bad. But is she? Why is she like that? Why does she want that treasure so bad? Why is it so important for her to have it? And why does she go to all these ends, ruthless ends sometimes, to be able to find it—to own that? It was a lot to play with. The movies were amazing, and the writers who wrote the movies wrote our show. They’re showrunners. They haven’t just taken the name, remixed it, and thrown it out there.”

Could Another National Treasure Movie Happen?

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National Treasure: Edge of History has reignited interest in the long abandoned third movie in the franchise. While there has been some talk about a revival of the franchise in movie form from Nicolas Cage – who is really having a renaissance right now – there has been nothing set in stone. For that reason, the new sequel series is the closest things fans can currently get, although Cage is not seemingly involved in the show.

The synopsis for National Treasure: Edge of History reads:

You can catch the first two episodes of National Treasure: Edge of History on Disney+ from December 14.

Jess Valenzuela’s life is turned upside down when an enigmatic stranger gives her a clue to a centuries-old treasure that might be connected to her long-dead father. Jess has a knack for solving puzzles, and her skills are put to the test as she and her friends follow a series of clues hidden in American artifacts and landmarks. But can Jess outsmart a black-market antiquities dealer in a race to find history’s greatest lost treasure and unbury the truth about her family’s past?