Catherine Zeta-Jones Says Singing in ‘Wednesday’ Came ‘Organically’ (Exclusive)

Warning: This post contains spoilers for season 2 of Wednesday.

Catherine Zeta-Jones didn’t need to ask to show off her singing skills on Wednesday.

More than two decades after Zeta-Jones won the Oscar for her role as Velma Kelly in the 2002 movie musical Chicago, the 55-year-old actress sings and dances in season 2 of the hit Netflix show.

“I didn’t suggest a dance,” Zeta Jones tells PEOPLE. “I didn’t just have to suggest a song or, from my Zorro days, a sword fence. It was all kind of organically put in. In that it doesn’t go, ‘Oh, she did Chicago. Let’s give her a song and a dance.’”

Zeta sings a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” alongside Billie Piper in episode 3 of Wednesday’s second season.

“Me singing as Morticia Adams was wonderful, how to pronounce the words, the emotion that comes up from the song that we sing,” she shares. “Also, I got to sing with Billie Piper, who is wonderful.”

Zeta-Jones also has nothing but praise for her on-screen husband Luis Guzmán — with whom she shares a tango to Roberto Alagna’s “La Cumparsita” in episode 3 — and daughter Jenna Ortega.

“The dance with Louis was something that was so organic to Gomez [Addams] and Morticia,” she recalls. “And then the sword fight between my daughter Wednesday, where we emotionally and verbally are dueling throughout the whole season, as sometimes mother daughters do, teenage mother daughters do, to put that into movement was just genius.”

When asked about preparing for the sword fight with Ortega, 22, she explains, “Of course, we did rehearse it. It’s like choreography and stunts. You know, we have to be careful. These are real weapons we’re working with.” 

Zeta Jones called Ortega “amazing,” adding, “She’d find time in her schedule, which is a much bigger schedule than mine, to come and rehearse with me, and then we worked it with the stunt coordinator, and it turned out really fabulous.”

As for her tango with Guzmán, she shared that their rehearsal process was also “fun.”

“He just really worked hard. You nailed it,” she tells Guzmán in their joint interview with PEOPLE. “We used to rehearse the four scenes outside, dodging the rain, sometimes in Ireland, in gravel to keep it every day, to keep it fresh. Because, of course, we learned it at the beginning of the show. We weren’t shooting it for weeks, three months later. So to keep it fresh and to remember our moves every now and again, we just jump together and we do it. And we laughed.”

“And it was such a beautiful song to dance to, and just the whole rhythm of it and the whole timing of it, and our ability to just continue our passion for each other in that incredible dance,” Guzmán, 68, adds. “I’m really proud of her.”

Despite not suggesting slipping on her dancing shoes again, Zeta-Jones shared she still has a say in the direction of her character.

“[They] want us to contribute and suggest, which is rare,” she says. “Usually it’s like, we do our job and you do yours…because it has been officially announced we’re doing season 3, they want us to give ideas to where we should go as our characters.”

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Wednesday is returning for season 2 on Netflix in two parts, first on Aug. 6 and then on Sept. 3.