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We adhere to structured guidelines for sourcing information and linking to other resources, including scientific studies and medical journals.. For the depiction of the terrifying decline of a novelist who takes a caretaker position at an isolated hotel with his family and turns homicidal after they are snowed in, she and co-starendured 13 months of arduous shooting under the famously obsessive auteur.
Yet that sympathy didn't extend to Nicholson offering her comfort on set, as the director reportedly told the cast and crew not to offer Duvall any sympathy for what she was going through., Duvall later said that Kubrick"prodded" her further than she had ever been pushed before—and that included filming take after take of her scenes until the director was satisfied.
For this sequence, however, Duvall didn't have to do much more than look terrified of the man menacing her—which Kubrick made inevitable by subjecting her to the punishing psychological ordeal."It was only with the greatest difficulty that Shelley was able to create and sustain for the length of the scene, as recounted by E! Online."It took her a long time to achieve this and when she did we didn't shoot the scene too many times.
"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," Duvall recalled decades later in an interview with."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 said that to me, too. He said, 'I don't know how you do it.