Her next project, a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie for TV, will star Rosie O'Donnell as a mentally challenged woman who rides the bus all day.

"The trouble always with female-driven movies is getting strong men to act in them," Huston says. "Men are apt to want to star in movies. It's amazing how much resistance you come across with them wanting to be the center of the movie."

Huston doesn't really get that. She's content to play supporting roles in male-dominated pictures as long as the movies are good. "My career has mostly survived on supporting roles ‑- great supporting roles ‑- but those are the ones that interest me," she says. "I don't find myself attracted to centerpiece roles that don't necessarily have a lot to say."

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