Zelda Fitzgerald was not a feminist: Christina Ricci

Hollywood star Christina Ricci says she read everything she could find on F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to prepare for her role in "Z: The Beginning of Everything", which revolves around the tumultuous romance of the Jazz Age icons.

The ten-part series will see Ricci and David Hoffin in lead roles. Both Fitzgerald and Zelda epitomised the rebellion and the glamour of the decadent era of the 1920s but their marriage ended in bitterness and tragedy.

Ricci says to understand Zelda, she started reading everything that she could find on the couple, including their own writings.

"I read all of her biographies and then I read a biography of Fitzgerald. I read all of her and Fitzgerald's writings that I could get my hands on. I did as much research as I could. I will do all this again for the second season," Ricci told

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