According to IMDB, none of the actors listed have worked directly with Jack Nicholson. The closest connection is with Tommy Lee Jones, who played Two-Face in Batman Forever in 1995. Nicholson had played the Joker in 1989's Batman.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.