He recalled, “A month later, I used to be on the Deauville Movie Pageant. … I see on the schedule that the following day on the pageant, they will have ‘Zorro’ there. So I requested my assistant ‘Can you discover out if Catherine Zeta-Jones goes to be right here on the pageant and if she’s coming alone? And if she is, can I’ve a drink together with her?'”
The Oscar winner’s assistant got here via and arrange a rendezvous for the 2.
“The following day, she arrives with Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, and I’ve a drink together with her and it was the whole lot I hoped for, then she invited me to dinner together with her firm, I am considering, ‘I am trying good, that is trying good.'”
After dinner, the 51-year-old actor Zeta-Jones needed to hurry off to a different engagement, however Douglas informed her that he’d be on the bar later if she needed to affix him once more.
The ‘Ant-Man’ actor reminisced,”Certain sufficient, I will need to have been batting one thousand, as a result of, after the film, I am sitting on the bar, and like ‘Laurence of Arabia,’ this mirage comes via the foyer and it is Catherine Zeta-Jones.”
As per Fox Information, the 2 loved a bit extra time collectively earlier than Douglas hit Zeta-Jones with a daring line.”I will be the daddy of your youngsters,” he informed her.
Douglas remembered, “And he or she left. She left early the following morning and I assumed I fully had blown it.”
“She checked out me and she or he stated, ‘I’ve heard rather a lot about you, I’ve heard rather a lot about you, I suppose it is all true good night time.'”
All hope was not misplaced, nevertheless, as they ultimately “made contact” once more, and, as Douglas put it, “the remainder is historical past.”
The couple married in 2000 and now share two youngsters 20-year-old Dylan, and 17-year-old Carys. Douglas additionally has a 41-year-old son, Cameron, from a earlier marriage.
Within the feedback of the Instagram put up, Zeta-Jones, additionally an Oscar-winning actor, wrote “I really like you, I really like you, I really like you, I really like you.”