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Shelley Duvallis back.
On Friday, Deadline reported that Duvall, now 73,is set to make her anticipated return to filmfor the first time in 20 years in the independent horror-thrillerThe Forest Hills. In the first still image from the movie, Duvall is seen staring directly into the camera.
The upcoming movie is from writer-director Scott Goldberg and stars Edward Furlong, Chiko Mendez and Dee Wallace in addition to Duvall, who famously starred in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 psychological horror filmThe Shining.
Duvall plays Rico’s mother, who is an inner voice to the man throughout the movie, according to the outlet.
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“We are huge fans ofThe Shiningand it’s honestly one of my favorite horror movies of all time, up there with John Carpenter’sHalloweenand George A. Romero’sDay of the Deadwith the dark tones they delivered in their movies, along with perfect scores and elements that make them my personal favorites,” producer-director Goldberg told Deadline in a statement.
Duvall’slast film role was in 2002’sManna From Heaven, after which she announced her retirement from acting, according to the outlet.
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In February 2021, Duvall spoke toThe Hollywood Reporterfor a wide-ranging profile in which she reflected on makingThe Shining, which took 56 weeks to film and holds a Guinness World Record for “most retakes for one scene with dialogue.”
Duvall, who had been living outside of the spotlight for almost three decades prior to the profile, shared that director Kubrick offered her the role before meeting her — or even having a script. “He said I was great at crying,” she recalled.
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Although she remembered having a “nice dinner” with Kubrick and his daughter before production began, once the cameras started rolling it was strictly business.
“[Kubrick] doesn’t print anything until at least the 35th take. Thirty-five takes, running and crying and carrying a little boy, it gets hard,” the actress said. “And full performance from the first rehearsal. That’s difficult.”
In order to get herself into the right headspace, Duvall said she would “listen to sad songs” before each scene or “just think about something very sad in your life or how much you miss your family and friends.”
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“But after a while, your body rebels. It says: ‘Stop doing this to me. I don’t want to cry every day.’ And sometimes just that thought alone would make me cry,” she added. “To wake up on a Monday morning so early and realize that you had to cry all day because it was scheduled — I would just start crying. I’d be like, ‘Oh no, I can’t, I can’t.’ And yet I did it. I don’t know how I did it.Jack [Nicholson]said that to me, too. He said, ‘I don’t know how you do it.'”
In response to questions about whether the director had been cruel or abusive to her during the course of filming, Duvall said that while Kubrick had “that streak in him,” he was “very warm and friendly” to her.
“He spent a lot of time with Jack and me. He just wanted to sit down and talk for hours while the crew waited. And the crew would say, ‘Stanley, we have about 60 people waiting.’ But it was very important work,” she recalled.
source: people.com
