Article: LIVING WITH GHOSTS film Danny Huston started his career being told by his father when to say 'cut'. Now he's an acclaimed actor with five movies due for release. But, he tells Clemency Burton-Hill, he still lives in the shadow of his famous DAD

'I LIKE TO DESCRIBE MY FATHER JOHN AS A GIANT WHO protects me from the harsh rays of the sun,' confides Danny Huston. 'I feel rather comfortable in his shadow.' Somebody had better buy this man a pair of sunglasses, and fast, because he is about to be propelled into the full glare of Hollywood. Where once he was all too easily dismissed with a quick familial prefix - he is after all a 'son-of' (John), 'brother-of' (Anjelica), 'grandson-of' (Walter), or even 'ex-husband of' (Virginia Madsen) - the 44-year-old actor could eclipse them all.

Indeed, given his recent, eye-catching roles in high-profile successes such as The Constant Gardener and The Aviator (he threatened to steal the show in ...

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