Editing Prizzi's Honor (section)

==Production==
As well as working with his actress daughter, John Huston hired Meta Carpenter Wilde, the script supervisor who worked with him on ''[[The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)|The Maltese Falcon]]'' (1941) and [[Rudi Fehr]], his film editor from ''[[Key Largo (film)|Key Largo]]'' (1948).<ref name=AFI>{{cite web|url= https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58300-PRIZZIS-HONOR?sid=ef8c86b6-feb1-4fca-aa7a-82ff2edfbc2e&sr=10.217389&cp=1&pos=0 |title=AFI Catalog - Prizzi's Honor (1985) |website=[[American Film Institute]]|accessdate=September 5, 2022}}</ref>

Anjelica Huston was paid the [[SAG-AFTRA]] scale rate of $14,000 for her role in ''Prizzi's Honor''. When her agent called up the movie's producer to request if she could be paid more, she was told "Go to hell. Be my guest—ask for more money. We don't even want her in this movie." Huston, who was not only John Huston's daughter but also Jack Nicholson's girlfriend at the time, wrote in her 2014 memoir ''Watch Me'' that she later overheard a production worker saying, "Her father is the director, her boyfriend's the star, and she has no talent."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldman |first=Andrew |date=2019-04-29 |title=Anjelica Huston, In Conversation |work=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/anjelica-huston-in-conversation.html |access-date=2019-05-02 |archive-date=September 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240919124402/https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/anjelica-huston-in-conversation.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

A 25-year-old [[Stanley Tucci]] made his film debut in ''Prizzi's Honor'', playing the minor role of a mafia goon.