Catherine Zeta-Jones steps away from mainstream Hollywood, says 'I don't have to prove anything to anybody’

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Catherine Zeta-Jones is confidently stepping away from mainstream Hollywood. In her next career move, "The Mask of Zorro" actress, 55, shared that she stepped back into a different film genre and away from the commercial demands of Hollywood. "I can’t talk about it right now, but I am doing a little indie picture, and I’m really excited about that, because I’ve never been part of that indie world," she shared at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I want to turn up.

I want to do some interesting work. It goes back to my theater thinking, because I don’t feel I have to prove anything to anybody.

I don’t have to work hard for other people." Zeta-Jones’ comments come after she reflected on her Hollywood career and how she landed an Oscar for best supporting actress in the 2003 film "Chicago." "It’s actually the beginning, because there’s the precedent, with your name being preceded with the Academy Award-winning Catherine Zeta-Jones," she explained to fans at the festival, according to the outlet.

The "America’s Sweethearts" star said that at one point in her Hollywood career, she hit a crossroad and had to choose between winning an Oscar or a best actress Tony. "To be acknowledged by the Broadway lights, that was wonderful.