Catherine Zeta-Jones & Daniel Ings Team Up for 'Kill Jackie'

For many years, a silent (sometimes not so silent) caste system existed in Hollywood: movie actors were considered upper class, while TV actors were perceived as working class. Transitioning from TV to movies was a challenging step, and those who succeeded (like George Clooney) only served to highlight how many didn't (like Jennifer Aniston). If there's any silver lining to the destruction streaming caused the industry, it obliterated the caste system as movie actors suddenly saw prestige (and paychecks) on the small screen, while TV actors found jumping to streaming films much easier.

Nowhere is that switch more evident than in the career of Catherine Zeta-Jones. The Oscar, BAFTA, and Tony-winning Welsh actor managed to make it in Hollywood in the 1990s, married into the Douglas acting family, and hasn't made a movie since 2016. Not that she hasn't been working; she starred in the stunningly well-done Feud: Bette & Joan, Queen America, and is currently starring as Morticia Addams in Wednesday. Although she has a film in the pipeline for 2026 or 2027, like Nicole Kidman, moving to TV has given Zeta-Jones the ability to find age-appropriate, meaty roles, or executive produce them herself when none exist.

Her latest is starring in an eight-part limited series adapted from Aidan Truhen‘s The Price You Pay, with the novel's protagonist, Jack Price, gender-swapped to the "Jackie" of the project's current working title, Kill Jackie. The globe-trotting series is filming in multiple European destinations, including Bilbao, Lisbon, London, and Zeta-Jones' hometown of Swansea.

Here's the series' synopsis:

In Kill Jackie, the creative team has switched the gender from Truhen’s novel to make the titular lead Jackie Price. Having lived a wealthy, luxurious existence for the last 20 years, her life takes a sudden, lethal turn when she discovers that The Seven Demons, a squad of the world’s most terrifying hitmen, have been hired to kill her. 

Zeta-Jones co-stars alongside Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen), who plays her buttoned-up lawyer Sam. The two are joined by an extensive cast that includes Sidse Babett Knudsen (Prime Target), Darci Shaw (A Thousand Blows), Raff Law (Masters of The Air), Hattie Hook (My Life Is Murder), Enzo Cilenti (The Crown), Christine Adams (Hijack), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia), Sebastian Armesto (Gangs of London), Julian Barratt (The Great), Gavin Spokes (Slow Horses), and Bill Paterson (Fleabag). Supporting cast includes Bamshad Abedi-Amin (The Last Kingdom), Set Sjöstrand (The Wheel of Time), Jonathan Cake (And Just Like That), Óscar Jaenada (Cantinflas), Karlis Arnolds Avots (Soviet Jeans), and Tadashi Ito (Society of the Snow).

Conor Keane created and co-wrote the TV adaptation with Tom Butterworth, who acts as showrunner. Directors Damon Thomas (Killing Eve) and Dawn Shadforth (I Hate Suzie) split helming duties across the series' eight episodes. Butterworth is an executive producer alongside Thomas and Zeta-Jones, Dante Di Loreto, and Jeffrey Levine, with Keane as associate producer. Peter Lawson and Jose Augustin Valdes executive produce for Steel Springs. José Luis Escolar’s Deabru Kalea Filmeak is supervising production in Bizkaia.  

Kill Jackie is currently filming for a 2026 release on Amazon's Prime Video.