Jones uses Welsh accent on screen for first time

Catherine Zeta-Jones's new revenge thriller has an almost cartoonish element "like Tom and Jerry". ( Supplied: Stan/Unai Mateo )

Link copied Share Share article It was an Australian who convinced Catherine Zeta-Jones to take on her latest role.

About five years ago, Peter Lawson , the Sydney-born executive producer of Spotlight and John Wick, sent Zeta-Jones the crime book The Price You Pay by Aidan Truhen.

It's the story of American cocaine dealer Jack Price, who finds himself the target of a hit by an international terrorist organisation.

As compelling as Zeta-Jones found the book, there was one glaring problem: The Price You Pay didn't have a woman lead.

Zeta-Jones recalls asking Lawson: "Peter, I presume you're going to change the central character to a woman?"

Sure enough, Jack Price became Jackie Price for the new action TV series Kill Jackie.