European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fantasies primed Anjelica Huston for Addams role by Hillel Italie the associated press Anjelica Huston grew up in a georgian mansion in county Galway in Ireland where its been said that witches turned cows milk into water and a coffin maker was haunted by the dead he had buried. A a it a part i think of anyone a experience growing up in Ireland that ghost stories and myths come into what we know. As Ordinary life without barriers Quot says Huston. A people can be telling you something that happened the other Day and then the Story will Drift and so and so will come in and she a been dead for 10 years and she sat Down to dinner and it All seems viable. A when 1 was a Little Girt i went for a Short while to a local Convent. First of All you hear about the Kings and so on. And then All of sudden you hear about these strange people and think a wait a minute where docs one Stop and the other begin a Quot Huston 40, stars with Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd in the film version of the Addams family which will open in mid december at cafes Heaters in Europe. She looked very much of this world for a recent interview in a Manhattan hotel wearing a silk Blue Gray jacket and Matching skirt her dark hair Cut in Bangs across her forehead. She needed new clothes but Little mental preparation to play that Slinky Black Robed goddess of the macabre mortician Addams the family a Deadpan matriarch. The actress was raised in an isolated mystical world with few other children around and her famous father John Huston away making movies. Anjelica Speni much of her Lime fantasizing. She would try on costumes dressing up As a Bride and even As one of the witches of Macbeth. Her Reading included the cartoons of Charles Addams the celebrated artist and satirist who created the ghoulish family. She remembered watching one movie while leaning on a hard Cushion a Protection she said in Case someone tried to stub her in the Back. If a teacher urged her to a set aside the fantasies she is so Apt to concentrate upon Quot Huston knew better. Few actresses in the past few years have exercised a or exorcised a their imaginations so freely so successfully. She was a mafia Princess in prizzi s Honor a cynical holocaust survivor in enemies a love Story a melancholy wife in the dead. Huston s characters comprise a family unsettling enough to make even the add Amses tremble but it is difficult to find any connection among them besides the Confidence of the woman willing to take them on. Her coldblooded con artist of the critters is balanced he the broken hearted mistress of crimes and misdemeanours. The same actress who could seem so reserved so dignified in the dead Camps it up with the Best of them in the Addams tamil and the witches. Quot exhibitionism. I think we Call it a Huston says with a laugh. "1 love what i do and nothing is better than when everything a working for you. When its working it becomes such an intimate situation one can enter into another life. One in t sitting in judgment of oneself and one can really  Huston the incurable Mystic is the daughter of the cinemas great fatalist. In the maltese Falcon fat a Fyrand other films John Huston presented dreamers whose plans for greatness fall Short who live tied to an invisible Leash that snaps them Back As soon As they wander too far. Until prizzi s Honor released in 1985, Huston s Fate seemed As strapped in As that of any of the Petty thieves in her fathers the Asphalt Jungle. She was an cd Model and a minor actress known As the daughter of one celebrity and the Girlfriend of another Jack Nicholson. But her imagination the ability to inhabit other lives offered a Way out. At the Cpl of  s Honor her character macros receives a Call from Charlie Partanna Nicholson the mobster with whom her broken engagement had caused her disgrace with the family. He had married another woman the Beautiful Irene Walker Kathleen Turnera killer he ends up having to murder. He plumes macros to ask her out for a Date nervously explaining that his wife is no longer around. Quot there arc moments when everything a working Well that have very Little to do Writh oneself i think. Actually that last scene in prizzi a if you la forgive the term a divine intervention a id say it was one of my first experiences with what can v a a happen if you re relaxed and open and free Quot recalled 1 Luston who won an Academy award for the film. A i had spent my life As Maerose and that was the last scene that we shot those eight weeks in new York and los Angeles i was the character. A when that moment came it shocked me the first time then i began to be Able to preserve it a Little. It was a line that he said to me on the phone a Irene s gone and she wont he  a the first time he said in to me on the plume All the hair on my arms blood up. I had this feeling of tremendous elation and Joy for which i was not responsible a a Huston said. A we had to do it Over several times because of the lighting. Whatever happened with this character every Lime lie said that line she a gone she won t he Back a the hair stood up on my arms and i had this punch of elation in my Chest. Its not anything you can premeditated and plan a at the Lime All i could feel was  a Anjelica Huston needed Little mental preparation to play mortician in the Addams  24 1991 Bungay a