- All right, y'all, heading over to my first guest.
She is an Oscar and Tony-winner,
she's been one of our favorites in films like
The Mask of Zorro, which I loved, also Entrapment,
I used to pretend I could do that beam thing
with the red beams, she's amazing.
The Terminal and, of course, Chicago, so many movies.
Now she has her own line of lifestyle products,
it's called Casa Zeta-Jones.
Get it, I like it.
I'm very happy to connect with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
What's up, girl, how you doing?
- There you are!
- Oh, there I am!
Here I am!
(Kelly laughs) - Wow, look at you.
- Oh, my gosh, you have a fan, I love you!
- Got a fan because I'm your biggest fan!
- Oh, my god, you're hilarious!
So, anyway, it is lovely to see you again,
and you are in a gorgeous room, by the way, where are you?
- I am in our house in Spain, and look, Kel,
this is Taylor.
- Oh, my gosh, Taylor, you're so cute!
- Of course, I'm sure he now wants to play,
he's been sleeping on that couch.
I'm in Europe, I've been,
I've been quarantining.
My daughter was in school here,
and when everything shut down, she came home
and my son came home from college
and my kids are just so much fun to hang around,
I'm so happy and so lucky that my kids wanna hang with us,
they wanna sit at the table, they want to discuss,
so many teenagers are like,
whoa, you know, I'll be in my room,
and so, we had a lot of fun,
I did a lot of karaoke.
- I know, I know your musical!
I love that.
So, does your family karaoke,
or are you just holding this down?
- Well, it's usually me who's like,
well, my brothers and my father and my whole Welsh family,
we're karaoke freaks,
we're literally fighting over the mic,
(Kelly laughs) like, I'm next, like children.
But Michael likes to sit and watch.
- [Kelly] (laughs) He's like, you've got this.
- After a few vodkas or something,
he'll get up and do something,
but he's not that kind of person.
But my son plays lead and bass guitar,
my daughter plays, they sing, they both sing,
and so we're a bit like a kind of
makeshift Osmonds when we get together.
- Yeah, I was gonna say, wow,
that's an amazingly musical family.
I wish, I didn't grow up in a musical family,
I was a weirdo, I was random in my family.
That's so cool that you did.
- You didn't have to, darling.
You led the way now for the next generation
of the Clarksons. (Kelly laughs)
- I think, people like me,
I did grow up around a lot of people that did sing,
'cause I grew up in church singing,
so I grew up singing gospel music, so that's probably why,
but what's your go-to karaoke song, I'm curious.
- Oh, my gosh, well, I sing anything
that a woman sits at a piano and plays and sings,
so, Adele. - Oh, like Tapestry,
Carol King. - Karen King, Carly Simon.
I love Billy Joel, I sing Neil Diamond,
I sing all the golden oldies.
- Yeah.
- Bit of Barbra.
- I love Barbra.
- I know.
- So, Catherine, I didn't bring this up before,
but do you remember the first time we met each other,
and I'm sorry again.
- No, no, no, I've actually put the clip on my Instagram,
because it was one of those moments,
because I think, unbeknownst to you,
I'll just backtrack and
tell everyone watching what I'm talking about.
So, we're on the red carpet,
and usually, it's like Grand Central Station,
the red carpet, there's so many people.
Well, I'm like you in that,
I was talking to your lovely producer the other day
and he was saying that you still enjoy it,
you get starstruck by it.
- I love it.
- And I'm like you.
Now, here we go, look.
Oh, my, I'm going, it's Kelly Clarkson,
it's Kelly Clarkson! - I'm kind of not freaked out.
- And you're going, (indistinct)
- No, you don't understand, I am still such a child,
and I actually love that about myself,
I love that I get so excited still,
'cause I feel like a lot of people get really jaded
and they're so used to it,
but I don't really, I'm a homebody like you,
the only time I'm out or see people is at work,
we have four kids, we don't, you know what I'm saying?
And even when I was single, honestly,
on tour, I was playing Scrabble or reading books on my bus,
so I'm a total nerd,
so I'm really, I get really excited about people that I,
and especially, you're in so many movies
that are just such nostalgic moments for me that I love
and you're so talented.
- Thank you.
- And Chicago was amazing,
and I think that's what makes you
such a joy to watch on social media,
I know that you're active on social media,
which I think, you're more active than I am,
I'm not very active at all. (laughs)
But I'm a nerd, but I think it's awesome,
'cause you get to peer into how down to earth you are
and you're this huge, famous, awesome, lovely star,
but you feel like one of us at the same time,
so it's awesome, do you like doing social media?
- I do.
I came late to it, but I must say,
I've got in contact with people
that I worked with when I was a kid,
and friends and acquaintances who,
not through a lack of trying,
but our lives just took different paths,
and all of a sudden, I get a message
and it's like, wow,
and I try keep it as politically-free
and as a happy kind of timezone for me,
so I don't go out there to rant or to make my point or to,
I just go out there to have fun,
it's my kids, it's my life, it's my dog,
it's my hubby, it's my fun time,
it's my travels, I love to travel a lot
and I love to share that.
- We found some of your videos
and I was gonna see what was happening.
So, there's this one.
- [Michael] Ho, ho, ho.
Ho, ho, ho.
- My personal Santa is doing my laundry.
- [Michael] Don't get carried away.
- Don't get carried away, is that what he said?
- Yeah.
- I love that.
I'm gonna, from every wife and mother in the world,
does he often do laundry, 'cause usually they don't.
- We were staying in an echo camp,
we were actually in, I think we were in Botswana there,
or anyway, we were in Africa.
- I love Africa.
- We were in these little huts
and we had to walk through these little,
these little wooden, wriggly places
and I see my husband and I always carry my laundry bag
for my smalls and my bits,
when I travel, I put them in,
and sometimes I wash them myself,
sometimes they go off to the laundry, whatever,
and I see my husband in the closet
digging through my stuff,
and I say, "Excuse me, what are you doing?"
He said, "I'm doing the laundry."
- And you're like, what? (laughs)
- I'm like, "Okay, continue, continue."
But what he was doing was taking it to the main clubhouse
to give to somebody else
who was going to do the laundry,
but it was the mere fact of my husband of nearly 20 years
going, like he does it every day,
Michael Douglas washes my knickers every day,
it's like, what are you doing?
What are you doing with that?
(Kelly laughs)
- And don't shrink them,
I don't want them all to come back pink.
- No.
(Kelly laughs)
- Wait, here's another one.
So, what's going on here?
This is your daughter, right?
You and your daughter.
- My daughter, Carys.
What to do, Lady?
Lord Grecian was waiting for you.
(laughing)
- What are you reciting?
- Okay, we're not reciting.
My daughter goes to drama camp
since she was literally out of diapers,
talk about the apple doesn't fall far from the tree,
both my kids have gone way up, nearly on the Canadian border
and they had the best, they say they had
the best two months of their life
every summer at summer camp in an arts camp.
So, they've always acted. - That's amazing.
- And so, we play act,
and so, that particular scene was I'm the British maid
and she's the lady of the manor
and the potential suited, proposed husband
is downstairs in the parlor waiting for her in the joffers,
and so she's like, oh, no, Lord Grecian,
we don't want it here.
This was all made up, this is all impromptu,
but we just could not stop laughing.
- That is so special,
that you have that kind of relationship with your daughter,
that's amazing.
- We have so much fun,
we have a lot of fun together, we all do,
so that was one of those things,
and then I thought, okay, we think it's hilariously funny
and probably people are not gonna even go,
what the hell are they doing, what are they on?
- That's what's so charming about it,
you're like, this is awesome,
this is just what they do, that's what's so cool about it,
like I said, once again.
So, okay, you're also, this one has no sound,
but you're dancing.
- Oh, charades.
- Oh, you're playing charades?
Look at... (laughs)
- Yeah.
I was, yeah, My Hips Don't Lie, I think.
- Oh, Hips Don't Lie, Shakira.
- Yeah, yeah. - You were Shakira.
- Yeah. - Oh my gosh.
- I thought everyone would get it.
- Wait, do y'all play games a lot?
I love games. - Yeah.
I know, we love to play games.
We play poker, we play charades, we play Monopoly,
oh, my son's a Monopoly,
my son needs Monopoly to go on for two days,
otherwise it's not worth it, you know?
- Oh my god, that's me and my sister, that's our game!
No one will play with us,
no one in our family or friends will play with us
and it's our game.
- I know, Monopoly.
We play a really great game
that my son got from college from a European student.
It's called Silo, and it's a card game,
if you haven't seen it, I've never seen it before
and I'm a bit of a game person too,
I've never seen this one before,
but once you get into it, it's really good.
- So, her line of beauty products and footwear
is called Casa Zeta-Jones.
So, Catherine, on top of everything else,
you run your own lifestyle brand, Casa Zeta-Jones.
How'd that start?
- Well, I came up with the name in the sauna,
which I do some of my best thinking and ideas
come when I'm stark naked at 112 degrees sweating.
(Kelly laughs)
I find I get inspired.
The juices start to flow.
- Yeah, all over.
- Exactly.
I needed, I said, okay,
I don't want it to be Catherine Zeta-Jones,
but I want to use CZJ,
because people call me CZJ all the time.
Casa, casa, casa, house in Spanish, Casa Zeta-Jones.
Perfect, done.
So, yes, I started off with house and home
and I was working with QVC
and we did lots of bedding,
I love, I'm a frustrated interior designer, architect.
- Me too.
- I love, I love.
And so, but I wanted to create a lifestyle brand
which was a part of me that was for my customer,
accessible, beautiful, tried and tested,
all the things that I love.
I mean, I've been sitting in a makeup chair
with the best makeup artists in the world
using great products all my life, you know?
So, if only this was like this, this mascara was like that,
and then, I love wearing huge high heels on the red carpet,
but in my life, Mama Zeta wears my flats.
- Okay, I was gonna say, that's where we're different,
'cause right now, I'm rocking a tennis shoe! (laughs)
Actually, you've just recently
added shoes to your line, right?
- I have shoes, yeah.
I teamed up with a great British company
called Butterfly Twist.
In fact, I found them because I had a blister
on my foot once at an airport
and I found this pair of shoes
and they, look, I can show you.
This is another pair.
They're beautiful, vegan, hand-woven.
- Oh my god, they fold up. - And they fold up like this,
and they go in your tote, in your bag,
in your case, you can fit loads in your case,
and they're super comfortable and squidgy
and just, they're like slippers, I'm in them all day long.
- It reminds me of how Oprah had her favorite things,
I think this is like,
your line is just your favorite things.
- It is, it's my favorite things.
- Because you have makeup as well.
- Yes, I've just launched, actually,
my Casa Zeta-Jones, I'm just starting with eye makeup,
well, mascara and two pencils,
and thank god, now,
because you imagine if I was coming out with a lipstick
and everyone's like this.
(laughing)
I prefer to see masks than my particular lipstick right now,
so masks go first. - You could put it
on the mask, that should be the mask.
- But look, let me show you.
So, this is my packaging,
I was so thrilled with my packaging.
- It's so cool. - So, this is my mascara.
And you know when you have a mascara and you go,
oh my god, this is wonderful,
and then you go, if only it was,
if only it didn't fleck after a few hours,
if only when I took it off at night,
it didn't take the six eyelashes that I have left
(Kelly laughs) off with it.
- When you're removing it with oil, yeah.
- God granted me beautiful hair,
thick, thick, thick hair, right?
Thank you, but I miss out on the eyelashes.
And so, I need a little bit of help.
But this is, yeah, it exactly is all my favorite things,
it's the formula, it's the perfect formula for me
and I just wanna share it with everybody.
- I think that's cool, though, then it's so transparent
and your fans are really,
and people that, they'll trust it 'cause you love it,
so that's the coolest part, when it's organic like that.
- Well, I hope so, and it comes from really
me genuinely enjoying doing this, you know?
I work completely from the packaging, to even,
I'm so micro-manager, even the little writing
has to have the font that I want,
and so, it's not me just putting my name to something
and quite honestly with you, I don't really
need to do that. - Yeah, yeah.
- It just gives me so much joy.
I have a great group of about six ladies I work with
and a few guys, obviously,
but my ladies are the closest-knit
when it comes to all the work we do,
I just have a lot of fun doing it.
- I love that, I love that,
it shows, which is so cool.
And that's the coolest thing too,
I love that in my career too, it's like, at this point,
I don't have to do something, I just want to do it
and that's the difference,
that's when it really, really counts and it's exciting.
So, your daughter, did she
get into your makeup when she was little?
Did she ever do that?
- Oh my god, oh, yeah, she still does.
We have a rule, she can borrow anything,
and I mean anything, from my jewelry
to my shoes to my makeup, everything,
but it has to be put back in the right place.
But she does, she loves to go in there,
she likes to bring her girlfriends and she goes,
"Mom, can we go in your closet and play dress-up?"
I go, "Yeah."
I love it, I love it.
- Oh my gosh, that's so cool.
I love, I mean, what mom goals are these? (laughs)
I hope my daughter likes me like yours likes you.
I'm lucky, she's six and she's really enamored
by singing and on stage and stuff at this point,
but I hope it sticks a little bit
to where I'm still impressive
and she's not like, "Whatever."
But it is lovely to see you,
I think that you're such an awesome human
and really, these are major mom goals for me at this point.
But thank you for taking the time
and calling from Spain, what a beautiful home you have.
Yeah, everybody can check out Catherine's lifestyle brand
Casa Zeta-Jones and her head-to-toe beauty line online
and at your favorite store.