"Searching for Shelley Duvall": Reclusive Actress Interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter
“I missed a couple of tributes for [Robert Altman],” says Shelley Duvall, photographed Jan.25 in rural Texas. “I didn’t have the money to go. I didn’t go to his funeral, either. Because I just can’t believe he’s dead. I think he’s alive and well and having a glass of wine and a joint.”
"After leaving L.A., and making only one public appearance since - on a widely condemned mental illness episode of 'Dr. Phil' - the complicated actress sat down for a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter about her legacy and the trauma of the Stanley Kubrick film: 'To wake and realize that you had to cry all day, I don’t know how I did it.'"
From left: Duvall, Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick shooting 1980's 'The Shining.' "We were up on scaffolding," Duvall recalls of the elaborate set. "We were up three stories high."
- Ms. Duvall is living (and has been living) in Texas with Dan Gilroy, Madonna's ex-bandmate and ex-boyfriend since 1989!!
- She chain-smokes Parliaments
- In contrast to Dr. Phil's surprising and devastating interview with the actress in 2016, the interviewer reports that Duvall is lucid, candid and has incredible memory recall. She talks at length about working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining. She doesn't agree with the pervasive notion that Kubrick emotionally abused her on set.
- Lily Tomlin, Anjelica Huston and Sissy Spacek give original quotes. Huston doesn't think that anyone on the set of The Shining, including her then-boyfriend Jack Nicholson, offered Duvall support.
- Duvall's mother passed away last April from COVID-19.
- She recalls that her longtime boyfriend Paul Simon broke up with her (for Carrie Fisher) at the airport, just before she boarded the plane that would take her to London to begin filming The Shining.
- Duvall cries when the reporter pulls up a clip on his phone from The Shining. "'Why are you crying?' I ask Duvall. 'Because we filmed that for about three weeks," she replies. "Every day. It was very hard. Jack was so good - so damn scary. I can only imagine how many women go through this kind of thing.'"
- Most of Duvall's memorabilia from her years as an actress (including a Best Actress award from the Cannes Film Festival) has been lost, likely due to a missed payment on a storage unit that was housing it.
- Duvall recently celebrated her 70th birthday at Red Lobster, her favorite restaurant, with a group of dedicated fans, many of whom protect her from the media.
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