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LARRY KING, Host: What a great pleasure to have as our special guest tonight, my co-star in “America’s Sweethearts”, Catherine Zeta-Jones. The movie “America’s Sweethearts” opens this weekend. Just so you know, I was hired to play myself in this movie. Catherine and I do a scene together. It was a lot of fun, but I’m going to stay with the day job. And I do get to yell at her. It’s “Zeta,” not “Zayde,” right?

CATHERINE ZETA-JONES, Actress: Zeta, yes.

KING: “Zayde” is a Jewish grandfather. You’re married to a Jewish guy.

ZETA-JONES: Yes. Zeta is my grandmother’s name, who is of not Greek origin. But Zeta is a Greek name. And everyone thinks that I was, just put Zeta in to spice up Catherine Jones. And that’s completely untrue.
In fact…
KING: It’s always been Zeta.

ZETA-JONES: I’ve always been called that. And in my school in Wales, Jones is a very, very popular name in Wales. And so there were like three Catherine Joneses in my class, so they always called me Zeta.

KING: Are you comfortable doing comedy?

ZETA-JONES: I was really, really happy to have the chance to do it. I mean, I was watching the other night, or a few weeks ago, in fact, when you were talking about Jack Lemmon, you know, and he said comedy is really difficult. It’s really difficult.
I think this is the thing: I mean this is the first time I’ve really had the chance to do a comedy, a comedy like this, and with these people who do this all the time.
I mean, Billy Crystal and Johnny and…
KING: And Julia Roberts.

ZETA-JONES: And Julia Roberts. That romantic comedy genre is a very specific one. I really think for me it’s, I need to do it again to be able to tell you that, because the consistency of comedy, I’m sure, is completely different from doing your first romantic comedy.

KING: Were you a beautiful kid? When you were 10 years old, were you a beautiful child?

ZETA-JONES: No.

KING: Were you chased around at school?

ZETA-JONES: No.

KING: You were not?

ZETA-JONES: No. I grew very tall and then never grew again. So I was kind of gawky.

KING: You were gawky.

ZETA-JONES: Kind of gawky.

KING: You were not the queen of the hop?

ZETA-JONES: No, no. I tried many times on those beauty talents. I never got anywhere.

KING: Really?

ZETA-JONES: No.

KING: We’ll be right back with Catherine Zeta-Jones, one of my favorite people, one of the good people too. And she’s terrific, if I do say so myself. “America’s Sweethearts” is a heck of a funny movie. We’ll be right back. Don’t go away.
[KING] OK, let’s go to phone calls now on Larry King Live. White Plains, you’re on the air with Gwen Harrison.
[CALLER] Hi, Larry.
[GWEN HARRISON] Hi.
[CALLER] Gwen, hi. I used to be a big fan but, I’m sorry, I can’t get over with what happened with you and Eddie. I an so sick over it. I can’t sleep at night, how can you?
[HARRISON] Well…
[KING] You do sleep next to a very handsome young Spanish gentleman, do you not?

KING: How much older is he?

ZETA-JONES: 25 years older.

KING: I’m 26 years older than my wife. It works, though. Right?

ZETA-JONES: So you are one of the rare people in this world.

KING: Yes. It works, though.

ZETA-JONES: Well, I think, historically, older men and younger women have been together. But all of a sudden, we’ve come to a generation where it becomes, like, I don’t know, this, another agenda going on. And when my mother was telling me about men and telling me the facts of life, she never actually put an age bracket on it.

KING: Thank you very much for joining us on this edition of our Larry King get-together with Catherine Zeta-Jones. It opens this weekend. Enjoy. Thanks for joining us.

ZETA-JONES: Thank you.

KING: Good night.

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