I based Morticia Addams on Jerry Hall, says Anjelica Huston Transposed from cartoon format to the big screen by the director Barry Sonnenfeld, the film proved a hit at the box office and a sequel was released two years later, with Huston reprising the same role. The actress, who initially expressed surprise that she had been offered the part over the singer Cher, said she had been "obsessed" with Morticia since childhood. But few will have guessed on whom she based her version of the gothic matriarch, who dresses in black and whose very name evokes death. Hall, 58, who had four children with Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones frontman, grew up in a pink bungalow in Mesquite, Texas, and has also been an actress herself, appearing on the big screen and on stage. She and Huston became "lifelong girlfriends" after meeting in London in the late 1970s while Huston was in a relationship with the actor Jack Nicholson. Huston had flown to England in 1978 to be with Nicholson, who was working on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining at Pinewood Studios at the time. The actress's memoir, an extract from which appeared in The Sunday Times magazine, is out on November 20.