Interview: Peter Lawson on the Bodies, Bloodshed and Bad Behaviour of Kill Jackie
Zeta-Jones plays a former criminal whose Welsh accent and family ties help shape the eight-part revenge thriller.
- On Friday, October 2, 2026, the eight-part action thriller Kill Jackie premiered on Stan, starring Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones as a former international drug smuggler hunted by seven assassins.
- Based on Nick Harkaway's novel The Price You Pay, creator Peter Lawson reimagined the lead character as a woman, allowing Zeta-Jones to play against type and blend brutal violence with absurd comedy inspired by the Coen Brothers.
- Showrunner Tom Butterworth helped evolve the story to ensure emotional foundation sustained the eight-hour runtime, exploring Jackie Price's search for family and incorporating her Welsh roots into a revealing chapter.
- Comparing modern hitmen to older rivals, Lawson said they "kill for money and post it on TikTok," as the team maintained a delicate balance between the dark, 'gonzo' tone and violent action sequences.
- Zeta-Jones delivers a performance Lawson called "morally complicated" and "irresistible," anchoring the series' mix of humor and pathos while offering audiences a fresh take on the gangster thriller genre.
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Having had many an iconic role over the years, Catherine Zeta-Jones feels more at home than ever in her new leading part in Prime Video's Kill Jackie.The new revenge thriller lands on the streamer today and sees Zeta-Jones take on many an action-packed scene as an art dealer with a dangerous past who becomes the target of a squad of assassins known as The Seven Demons.Adapted from novel The Price You Pay by Sunday Times bestselling author Nick H…
Interview: Peter Lawson on the bodies, bloodshed and bad behaviour of Kill Jackie
Catherine Zeta-Jones being hunted across Europe by seven of the world’s deadliest assassins is already a fairly irresistible proposition. Give her a wicked sense of humour, a violent criminal history and permission to beat the living hell out of anyone standing in her way, and Kill Jackie has all the ingredients of a gleefully unhinged...
The Welsh actress, who starred with Antonio Banderas in two films by El Zorro in 1998 and 2005, has filmed in Bilbao her new series, 'Kill Jackie', which reaches HBO Max on October 2.
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CATHERINE Zeta-Jones (57) was in Spain promoting the new series "Kill Jackie".
The actress dazzles Bilbao to premiere her new series and leaves surprising advice to Jesulin's daughter in the midst of a media storm.
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