Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson were together for 17 years — and they still have one another’s backs.
“I was in a car with three dogs, two cats, and the housekeeper [evacuating the wildfires], and he called and asked if I was all right and if I had someplace I was staying,” Huston, 73, told The Guardian in a profile published on Friday, February 21.
A string of wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last month, devastating thousands of acres and killing more than 20 individuals. Huston was among thousands of locals who were forced to flee their homes.
“It’s been kind of a scary month. My house almost burned down. It came very, very close,” Huston continued. “My electricity and water and power are still off, but we were safe.”
Huston evacuated with her pets — in addition to her dogs and cats, she owns seven donkeys and six horses — to safety. She said that in the midst of all the chaos, she was grateful that Nicholson, 87, reached out.
“That’s the bottom line with he and I,” she explained to the outlet. “When the chips are down, he’s there.”
The Towards Zero actress and Nicholson dated on and off for 17 years before they called it quits for good in 1990. The pair broke up when Nicholson fathered a child with another woman. (Nicholson has six children.)
Jack Nicholson And Anjelica Huston Maureen Donaldson/Liaison
While speaking to The Guardian, Huston revealed that she didn’t regret staying faithful to Nicholson for nearly two decades.
“I loved him. I think in the world that I was living in, it wasn’t disrespectful. It was how he was, and it wasn’t so personal. I think as soon as I clocked that, it was all right, I knew how to protect myself,” she said. “It didn’t make me happy, but I knew what I was doing.”
Huston continued, “I did what I wanted to do, and I did it with sureness. If I wanted something, I knew how to go after it, so it wasn’t as though anything was being done to me. I wasn’t a wilting flower.”
An acting legend. Jack Nicholson has been a force in Hollywood since landing his breakout role in 1969’s Easy Rider. “It is tremendously hard to look at your work. They did a retrospective at Telluride [Film Festival] and showed all the movies and I couldn’t bear it; I had to leave the cinema,” Nicholson recalled to Ireland’s Independent in […]
Huston went on to marry sculptor Robert Graham in 1992 and remained together until his 2008 death after a heart attack.
“I lost my husband a year before I made this movie,” she previously told Reuters in 2011 of signing onto 50/50, a movie about a cancer patient that also starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan and Anna Kendrick. “It came from a deeply personal place. I took everything — all of my experience from the five months I spent with him in [intensive care] to day-to-day occurrences in the hospital — which was kind of ludicrous at the same time as being heartbreaking.”
She concluded at the time, “I don’t think it hurt that I’d had the experience. Although, God, I prefer not to have had the experience, no question about that. I didn’t accept the role because it was cathartic, I accepted it because it really touched me.”
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