In the action-comedy film "Red 2" (2013), which served as a sequel to the 2010 film "Red", Zeta-Jones played a seductive Russian double agent, alongside Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, and Mary-Louise Parker. She was drawn to the project, which follows the comic adventures of retired spies, for "the action, the humour, the tongue-in-cheek quality of it". Writing for "The Hollywood Reporter", Justin Lowe remarked that Zeta-Jones "nicely pulls off Russian spy Katja's mix of allure and menace", and with a worldwide gross of US$148 million, "Red 2" emerged as her most widely seen film since "No Reservations".