May 11, 2019 at 12:02AM
Last week, New York magazine published a conversation with Anjelica Huston. In it, she discussed why she accepted her role in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, which premiered Thursday night in Brooklyn, saying, "Quite honestly, I'm looking for movies that impress me in some way, that aren't apologetically humble or humiliating like, 'Band of cheerleaders gets back together for one last hurrah,' you know. An old-lady cheerleader movie. I don't like that kind of thing."
It seemed like a pretty clear reference to Poms, the film in which Diane Keaton, Rhea Perlman, and Jacki Weaver, among others, play a group of retired women who start a cheerleading squad. At the Poms premiere, the same day Huston's interview was published, Weaver told Vanity Fair, "I just laughed. And then I said, 'Well, she can go fuck herself.'"
At John Wick 3's premiere, it was Huston's turn to walk the red carpet, celebrating her own role in the third installment of the popular franchise about a retired assassin that gets back in the game after someone from his past kills his puppy. She was good-humored and contrite about the interview that stirred up plenty of online drama. "I feel so bad about the actresses. First of all, I've not seen the movie," she said. "Secondly, I'm a huge fan of all the actresses. I read the script maybe a year ago. I wasn't crazy about the subject matter for me. Now, other people can do it, but I don't know—maybe I get scared of being old," she added, laughing.
Instead of cheer captain, she is John Wick 3's director of the High Table, the governing body to a network of international assassins that enforces a strict code on its members. She gets to say what the film's most ardent fans have been saying for years: "All of this for a puppy?"
In one action sequence that, thanks to set photos, has already been widely discussed online, Keanu Reeves rides a horse through New York City. Huston's own urban horseback riding was a little less dramatic, but only a little. "Yes, I rode a horse in Central Park," she said. "It was completely insane. I tried to make him go in a direction he didn't know how to go. So instead of going under the bridge, I tried to make him go on top of a bridge. I don't know what possessed me. He refused. He was a very, very determined horse. You know, I'd ridden all my life, and it was me against the horse. And the horse won."
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Last week, New York magazine published a conversation with Anjelica Huston. In it, she discussed why she accepted her role in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, which premiered Thursday night in Brooklyn, saying, "Quite honestly, I'm looking for movies that impress me in some way, that aren't apologetically humble or humiliating like, 'Band of cheerleaders gets back together for one last hurrah,' you know. An old-lady cheerleader movie. I don't like that kind of thing."
It seemed like a pretty clear reference to Poms, the film in which Diane Keaton, Rhea Perlman, and Jacki Weaver, among others, play a group of retired women who start a cheerleading squad. At the Poms premiere, the same day Huston's interview was published, Weaver told Vanity Fair, "I just laughed. And then I said, 'Well, she can go fuck herself.'"
At John Wick 3's premiere, it was Huston's turn to walk the red carpet, celebrating her own role in the third installment of the popular franchise about a retired assassin that gets back in the game after someone from his past kills his puppy. She was good-humored and contrite about the interview that stirred up plenty of online drama. "I feel so bad about the actresses. First of all, I've not seen the movie," she said. "Secondly, I'm a huge fan of all the actresses. I read the script maybe a year ago. I wasn't crazy about the subject matter for me. Now, other people can do it, but I don't know—maybe I get scared of being old," she added, laughing.
Instead of cheer captain, she is John Wick 3's director of the High Table, the governing body to a network of international assassins that enforces a strict code on its members. She gets to say what the film's most ardent fans have been saying for years: "All of this for a puppy?"
In one action sequence that, thanks to set photos, has already been widely discussed online, Keanu Reeves rides a horse through New York City. Huston's own urban horseback riding was a little less dramatic, but only a little. "Yes, I rode a horse in Central Park," she said. "It was completely insane. I tried to make him go in a direction he didn't know how to go. So instead of going under the bridge, I tried to make him go on top of a bridge. I don't know what possessed me. He refused. He was a very, very determined horse. You know, I'd ridden all my life, and it was me against the horse. And the horse won."
More Great Stories from Vanity Fair
— The campiest looks from this year's Met Gala
— Shooting a tiger: the bitter infighting, global protests, and massive egos of India's most controversial tiger hunt
— How the thong inventor's work lives on
— When did fashion get religious?
— Dispatches from Andy Warhol's "human tape recorder"
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