Zeta-Jones had 'Welsh' lesson from dad to rid of her US accent for voiceover

Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta-Jones was encouraged to talk to her father to rid her of her American accent before providing the voice-over for a documentary, its producer said today.

John Morgan said 37-year-old Swansea-born star needed the full "Welsh treatment" before narrating A Mountain To Climb, a film about a charity trek to raise money for the NSPCC Wales.

Speaking to the Western Mail, Mr Morgan said: "A lot has been said about her accent, and I was very aware of it.

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"When I first met her in New York to talk about the project, she was making a film where she had an American accent, so you could hear it in her voice.

"We went out there first to do a guide narration before the proper takes last week.

"So we made sure that when we went to record her in her home in Spain, she had the full Welsh treatment before we started recording.

"I was there and I'm a Welshman, a woman from the NSPCC was there who's also Welsh, and a Welsh person who did the sound.

"And we encouraged her to talk to her dad on the phone too. The end result sounds wonderful."

A Mountain To Climb follows former Welsh internationals JPR Williams and David Pickering and other Welsh personalities attempt to scale Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for the NSPCC Wales Full Stop appeal.

It will be screened on ITV1 Wales later this year.