Though the movie met with a mediocre reception, it was clear that the Welsh actress had asserted herself as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous new faces.

Later in 1999, Zeta-Jones starred alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in the less-than-stellar horror film The Haunting. The next year, she turned in a sharp cameo in the witty comedy High Fidelity, starring John Cusack. In late 2000, Zeta-Jones played the wife of a Mexican drug lord in the Oscar-winning drama Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh. She next starred as a temperamental Hollywood movie diva in the comedy America's Sweethearts (2001), opposite box office queen Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, and John Cusack. Zeta-Jones married Michael Douglas, her costar in Traffic (though they share no scenes together), on November 18, 2000. The couple's son, Dylan Michael Douglas, was born in August of 2000.