Anjelica Huston Reflects on Her 'Tough' Acting Debut with Her Father: 'He Was Hard on Me'

Anjelica Huston is reflecting connected her narration pinch her precocious begetter John Huston.

For a caller characteristic successful Interview magazine, the From nan World of John Wick: Ballerina actress, 73, looked backmost connected her first of 4 screen stories for nan outlet. For nan 1972 profile, Anjelica discussed her acting debut successful 1969's A Walk With Love and Death, which her begetter directed.

"I was 15 and going done each sorts of teen problems. It's really difficult to make a movie connected different person's territory, particularly erstwhile that personification is your ain father, truthful excessively adjacent to nan situation," Anjelica told Interview successful 1972 of her acquisition making nan film.

Asked to respond to her comments today, nan character said, “That was very tough. He was difficult connected maine because he realized early connected that I didn’t really want to do it, because I didn’t deliberation nan portion was for me, and I wasn’t comfortable successful my skin."

"You inquire immoderate character if she’s correct for something, she feels good. If she doesn’t, she feels bad," she added. "So I still don’t deliberation it was my fault.”

A Walk With Love and Death was 1 of 47 movies Anjelica's begetter John directed successful his decades-long movie career. John, who died successful 1987 astatine 81, was a two-time Academy Award victor for his activity directing and penning nan screenplay for nan 1948 movie The Treasure of nan Sierra Madre.

The character has admitted publically earlier that her first clip acting for nan surface was fraught, successful portion owed to nan truth that she was being directed by her father. In 2019, Anjelica told nan Los Angeles Times that John "miscast maine [the] first clip retired and I deliberation he realized that."

As she told nan outlet astatine that time, she primitively wanted to make her large surface debut successful 1968's Romeo and Juliet, which yet starred nan precocious Olivia Hussey. "I was fresh to act, but I wasn't fresh to enactment for him," she said. "I was difficult. I didn't want to enactment pinch nary makeup, though I'd person done it for [Romeo and Juliet head Franco Zeffirelli]." 

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Anjelica, of course, later won nan Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her capacity successful her father's 1985 movie Prizzi's Honor, which was John's penultimate movie arsenic a director. “He wasn’t for illustration nan different fathers. He was larger than life, and rather royal arsenic a person," Anjelica told Interview of her father, successful consequence to a 1972 quote of hers successful which she described his A-list circle of friends arsenic "part of my mundane life" increasing up.

"He lived successful extremes," she added. "And it was an mean truth of life that celebrated group would travel to stay, truthful I was exposed to a definite magnitude of drama. People for illustration Peter O’Toole and Marlon Brando.”

Ballerina is successful theaters June 6.