Catherine Zeta-Jones, Glamour's August Cover Model, Declares the Paparazzi "Profoundly Intimidating".

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 12, 1999--

Catherine Zeta-Jones, who appears on the August issue's cover of GLAMOUR, talks about the pressures of celebrity, and her confident attitude about breaking out of the "action-adventure babe" mold.

During a lunch interview in Santa Monica, California, the sultry actress relates a conversation between herself and a few photographers in a gray compact car who were staked out for her at the restaurant. She tries to barter with the paparazzi, but they continue to hound her.

"I find it profoundly intimidating," she says. "I wasn't rude to them, and they weren't rude to me. But I said, `Please don't follow me. Can't you see I'm a single woman and this bothers me? Why are you doing this?' They said, `We're photographers.' And I said, `So what? Weren't you there two weeks ago when I did a premiere and posed for 10 minutes for you?'"

Also, Zeta-Jones reveals her attitude about the relationship between her celebrity and the press. "It would be one thing if I never did any publicity. Then fine. Everyone wants to see a person who's locked away. But I don't lock myself away. I have given a fair share of my life to publicity."

The 29 year-old actress from Wales, who names F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera" among her favorite books, is patient about attracting other roles besides the action-adventure heroine.

"Do I worry about being typecast as the beautiful woman in the action adventure film? No, I don't," she says. "I'm proud of my action work. My sword fight in "Zorro" could have been dull. But I worked my balls off to get it right, to get people to remember it. And I think they did. But the other roles will come, too. There's time."

The full interview appears in the August issue of GLAMOUR magazine which hits newsstands on July 13. The magazine has a readership of nearly 12 million.