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06.09.2023 - 18:29 / deadline.com
For his feature directorial debut, Day of the Fight, Jack Huston has reteamed with his former Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt to tell the story a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first bout since leaving prison.
Huston also wrote and produces the movie which premiered to a warm and extended reception in the Horizons Extra section of Venice on Tuesday night. An experienced and award-winning actor, Huston was effusive in his excitement for the process of making Day of the Fight when we spoke ahead of the festival.
In the interview below, which has been condensed and edited for clarity, he tells me why lightning had to strike in order for him to get behind the camera, how he “called in every favor” to pull together a cast that also includes Joe Pesci, and why he’s “the luckiest son of a bitch” to have grown up immersed in the movies as part of one of the most legendary families in Hollywood.
DEADLINE: Talk me through why you decided to make this your feature directing debut, a story of a fighter on one day when he’s making the rounds to tie up loose ends.
HUSTON: I suppose the cheesiest way of saying it is lightning never struck. It was one of those moments where I was hit by the idea that I felt what had only been described to me as that feeling of when you know you’re onto something, that moment where you go “Oh that’s it, that’s the feeling.”
I was watching Kubrick’s 1951 documentary short he wrote and was the first thing he ever sold, to MGM for $1000. He followed Walter Cartier the welterweight champion of the world on the day of a prizefight and nothing very exciting happens, he visits his twin brother, he goes to the park, he drives around
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There’s been a lot of jealous talk about nepotism in the film world lately, but who would really want to come into the movie world as a, what, fourth-generation Huston? There are likely swords already being sharpened for Jack Huston, the handsome, charming, 40-year-old nephew of Anjelica, grandson of Jack and great-grandson of Walter. But his directing debut, Day of the Fight, which premiered this week in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra section, is certainly worthy of the family name. It’s a little earnest, sometimes a bit too style-conscious, and Huston is inclined to put performance before story every time. But the emotional input really earns its payoff in a confident, imaginatively mounted calling card.
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The Huston dynasty has produced so many raw, undeniable talents that its younger members are undoubtedly among the very few “nepo babies” who can still come out of that exhausting discourse unscathed. We may even feel pity for them, sometimes, living as they do in the shadows of so many brilliant relatives.