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‘When the chips are down, Jack Nicholson is there’: Anjelica Huston on love, loss and legal drama

From being told she couldn’t act to winning an Oscar, the Hollywood star has had a wild life. She talks old flames, being tucked up in bed for her new Agatha Christie mystery, and why she’s happiest when surrounded by donkeys

Despite the fact she is mostly horizontal, occasionally at a chair by the window and peering through a telescope at the Devon bay beyond, Tressilian is a domineering character, presiding over the younger relations she has assembled at her seaside home and making her displeasure known at their various life choices. Huston had a couple of relationships that could be considered abusive, and she can’t escape the fact that she was an unwitting witness – though she maintains she didn’t see anything – following Roman Polanski’s arrest for drugging and raping a 13-year-old. Nicholson’s infidelities were legendary over their on-off 17-year relationship, ending finally in 1990 when he fathered a child with someone else (Huston soon would have a happy marriage to the sculptor Robert Graham, until his death in 2008).

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