National Treasure Interview: Lisette Olivera Shares Advice from Catherine Zeta-Jones

Nicolas Cage’s Ben Gates in producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s highly-anticipated Disney series, National Treasure: Edge of History. The cherished franchise’s continuation upholds the timeless quality of the original films while welcoming a new generation of fans via characters like Olivera’s Jess Valenzuela, the show’s ambitious protagonist with a knack for solving puzzles. When Harvey Keitel’s Peter Sadusky returns to jump-start a new quest, Jess and her friends set out to locate an ancient treasure with possible ties to her family. The thrill of tracking down clues and solving mysteries is hindered, however, by Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Billie Pearce, a black market antiquities dealer who’s after the treasure for her own mysterious reasons. With National Treasure: Edge of History in the midst of its Season 1 run on Disney , Olivera took a moment to chat with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff about her experience leading her very first series. During the interview, she discussed how she put her heart i