Celebrity Biographies
Jack Huston
He triumphed as a laconic masked man in the “Boardwalk Empire” series, and has taken over from Charlton Heston aboard the “Ben-Hur” quadriga without being hit with tomatoes, which can be interpreted as a triumph. You can tell that Jack Huston has the blood of one of the clans that have made history in Hollywood running through his veins.
Heir to one of the most glorious celluloid lineages, his grandfather, the legendary filmmaker John Huston , would have recruited him, and he would not be out of place on screen with his great-grandfather, Walter , or his uncles, Anjelica and Jack . Born in the British capital on December 7, 1982, Jack is the son of screenwriter, assistant director and occasional actor Tony Huston , and Lady Margot Lavinia Cholmondeley, a descendant of Robert Walpole, the first person to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. United.
Taking into account his family background, at the age of six his school teacher chose him to star in the typical school performance of “Peter Pan”, which made him decide to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors as an actor. He studied at Hurtwood House, Surrey’s drama school, where he met Emily Blunt .
He began to make his way in the audiovisual industry from below, with Spartacus , from 2004, a television review of the rebellion led by the gladiator, where Goran Visnjic inherited the role that brought Kirk Douglas so much glory. After playing the poet Gerard Malanga in the ‘indie’ film Factory Girl , and a mysterious neighbor of one of the three witches in the Eastwick series , he began to attract attention, at least among young fans of the Twilight vampire saga , like Royce King II, millionaire betrothed to Rosalie ( Nikki Reed ), in Eclipse .
But he stood out above all as Richard Harrow, the silent man with a half mask in Boardwalk Empire . Although his presence as a faithful friend of Jimmy Darmody ( Michael Pitt ) was only scheduled for five episodes, he not only became a fixed character, but stole the spotlight, as a romantic anti-hero who in a world driven by greed acts out of love and friendship. . And all this, although it barely has dialogues. “I believe in love”, he shamelessly confesses to journalists. “There is something very beautiful in the feeling of love. In today’s world it is very easy to give up and run away from a problem, break up a family. I want to be with my girlfriend for the rest of my life.”
His success opened the door for more weighty roles, such as the Portuguese poet and doctor Amadeu Prado, who is sought out by Jeremy Irons in Night Train to Lisbon , a mobster in The Great American Hustle , the youthful version of the grandfather played by Alan Alda in The Longest Ride, Lieutenant George Wickham fleeing with a sister of Lizzy Bennet’s in Pride + Prejudice + Zombies and Scoundrels in a cab in Hail Caesar! .
The biggest challenge of his career came when he was chosen by the Russian Timur Bekmambetov , as a replacement for the unforgettable Charlton Heston starring in the new Ben-Hur .. He even more or less managed to keep the criticism off his back by shifting the focus from the Jewish prince betrayed by his childhood friend. “When I read the script I realized how different this movie is,” he commented in interviews. “The 1959 film was more about revenge. This is a story about redemption, hope and forgiveness. My Judah is different. Heston’s is a mature man. My Judah is a young man on the way to becoming a man”. As expected, for the peak scene he had to learn to drive the chariot, because although he has ridden a horse since he was little, it was not easy for him. “The feeling of leading four animals It was new to me. It’s exciting, fast and dangerous stuff.”
Although the revision of the novel by Lew Wallace has not given him the notoriety that was expected, the future looks good for Jack Huston. He stars in Lone Scherfig’s World War II film Their Finest , stars in Phillip Noyce ‘s thriller Above Suspicion , shares the screen with Jennifer Aniston in the war film The Yellow Birds , and is scheduled to reunite with Irons, who will play his father. , in the comedy An Actor Prepares .
He is in a relationship with the stunning Shannan Click, a famous Victoria’s Secret model who is taking her first steps as an actress. The two have had a daughter, Sage Lavinia Huston, in 2013, and a son, Cypress Night Huston, in 2016. “Parenthood has completely changed me,” she explains. “You experience another type of love, different from what you feel for your mother, for your brothers and for your friends.”