For one thing, there was her special collaboration with another master of cinema, Robert Altman.
Altman, who essentially discovered her, cast Duvall as Millie in the acclaimed dramaThree Women(1977).
He offers me damn good roles, shesaid of the director in 1977.
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None of them have been alike.
I remember the first advice he ever gave me: Dont take yourself seriously.
Making that movie profoundly affected her, severely testing her mental resilience.
Shelley Duvall inThree Women, 1977
Kubrick had her crying 12 hours a day for weeks on end, DuvalltoldPeoplemagazinein 1981.
I will never give that much again.
If you want to get into pain and call it art, go ahead, but not with me.
InThieves Like Us, 1974
Her final film role came in 2023, in Scott GoldbergsThe Forest Hills.
Shelley Duvall inThe Shining, 1980
