Keeping Up With The Zeta-Jones’s

Sara Sugarman is a busy woman. Not only is she up to her eyeballs promoting her newly-released second feature film Very Annie Mary, but she's also hard at work bringing Catherine Zeta Jones's new project to fruition. First on the agenda is Very Annie Mary, which is set in the Rhondda valley, and features Australian actress Rachel Griffiths in the lead role. Sugarman admits she was a tad worried about Griffith's ability to adopting a Welsh accent. ''I was really worried at first - she sounded like a Swedish Rastafarian.' If Griffiths had tried out her budding Welsh tones in front of Sugarman at their first meeting, it would have meant an abrupt end to a beautiful relationship. 'I wouldn't have let her come near [this role] in a million years,' laughs Sara, 'but she got better as time went on. I think she did a brilliant Welsh accent ' Sugarman is returning to Wales for her next project, Coming Out, which has attracted the attention of the world press because of the involvement of a certain Mrs Michael Douglas. 'Catherine and her brother Lyndon asked me to do it right at the beginning,' Sugarman told Empire Online. 'There's been a first draft done [by Twin Town director Kevin Allen] and I'm picking that baton up from there.' Presumably having Zeta Jones on board will mean more money in the pot this time? 'We want to try and keep it low-budget,' she told us. 'There are no big blow-up effects - it's a people film. And apart from Catherine's wages, it'll be pretty low-brow.' Part of the effort to keep costs down could be casting certain members of Zeta-Jones's family. 'I'm trying to get her brothers to do a bit in it,' says Sugarman.