Shelley Duvall (“The Shining”) returns to theaters with her first role in 20 years

The last time Shelley Duvall stepped on a set was for the 2002 film “Manna from Heaven”. She the actress had become famous in the 70s thanks to films like ‘3 Mujeres’, for which she won the award for best actress in Cannes, or ‘Annie Hall’, but in 1982 he will become part of the black legend of Hollywood after working with Stanley Kubrick in the classic ‘The Shining’. Despite continuing to work (she was nominated for two Emmys, a BAFTA and won Peabody in 1984), eventually founding her own production company in 1988, it was less and less frequent to see her on screen until she decided to leave. Hollywood, fueling rumors that working on “The Shining” hurt too much.

Finally, 20 years after that last role, Duvall returns to the cinema, and with a horror film. This is ‘The Forest Hills’, directed by Scott Goldberg, in which he will play the mother of a man who has suffered a concussion and begins to be tormented by terrifying visions. Duvall will have a small role, but will also play the listening voice of the character of his son, played by Chiko Mendez.

The film is independent and It also has Edward Furlong and Dee Wallace in the cast.. The screenplay is entrusted to the director, who thus celebrated Shelley Duvall’s return to acting: “We’re huge fans of ‘The Shining’, which is honestly one of my all-time favorite horror films along with John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween Night’ and George A. Romero’s ‘Day of the Dead’, with dark tones that brought to their films, along with the perfect soundtracks and elements that make them my personal favorites. Shelley helped make “The Shining” an absolute masterpiece by giving it their all and performing in a way that displayed fear and horror of an isolated mother “. “The Forest Hills” doesn’t have a release date yet.

Hollywood apologizes

In recent years, the industry has tried to compensate Shelley Duvall for the mistreatment and misunderstanding she received after “The Shining”. In 2016 he reappeared in an interview on the Dr. Phil show he claimed to be on “very sick” and in need of help coping with his mental problems, and many have criticized a program designed to exploit his trauma.

In 2021 he gave an interview to the Hollywood Reporter in which he talked about Kubrick’s cruelty on the set of “The Shining”: “He had that show, he sure did. But I think mostly because people had been like that with him at some point in the past. “. However, that production was undoubtedly exhausting for her: “(Kubrick) doesn’t approve of anything until he gets at least 35. 35 takes running around, crying and carrying a baby, it gets difficult. And playing 100% from the first rehearsal. It’s tough. I was listening to sad songs, or thinking about something very sad in my life or how much I have missed my family and friends. But after a while your body rebels. She tells you, ‘Stop doing this to me. I don’t want to cry every day. ‘ Sometimes that thought made me cry. Waking up very early on a Monday morning and realizing you have to cry all day because that’s what you have to do, that’s when I started crying. I thought: ‘I can’t’. And she still she did. I don’t know how but I did it. Jack (Nicholson) also said to me: ‘I don’t know how you do it’ “. The Razzie Awards named her the worst actress for the film, but this year they apologized and withdrew the nomination.