Catherine Zeta-Jones: Playing Griselda Blanco Was “So Liberating” — TCA

For Catherine Zeta-Jones, playing a Colombian drug kingpin in Lifetime movie Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story was transformative both physically and spiritually. Describing her pursuit of the role as an “obsession” at TCA on Sunday, Zeta-Jones said she’d really tried to embody the famously brutal Blanco. “It was so liberating,” she said. “I didn't want to play a caricature of her, and do like a Mrs. Doubtfire’s fat suit. I wanted to play her from the inside…

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