Olivia Hussey says shooting The Ice Cream Man was the perfect assignment for getting back into the swing of things now that her daughter, India, is 51/2 months old.
The actress, who rose to fame in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Romeo and Juliet, notes, “The baby still wakes up two or three times a night, but the movie isn’t too much work … that’s why I took it.”She also has a 21-year-old son from her first marriage to the late Dean Paul Martin, and an 11-year-old son by her second husband, singer Akira Fuse.
The 41-year-old Hussey says her pregnancy with India (by live-in love musician David Eisley) was a difficult one. “I spent almost six months in bed, then, after having the baby, I really needed to recoup. I’m glad to be working again.”
In Ice Cream Man, she plays “this quirky old nurse, who’s completely nuts. I look like a cross between Granny Clampett and Norma Bates” (Norman Bates’ mother in Psycho IV).
