>Kubrick was on the same page with Nicholson and treated him with respect but was always critical of Duvall. This was part of Kubrick’s plan, it seems. As Vivian Kubrick has confirmed in the commentary in The Making of The Shining, Stanley Kubrick deliberately bullied Duvall in order to enhance the insecurity of Wendy Torrance.
>He can even be heard in the film saying to the other crew members while she is standing right next to him, “Don’t sympathize with Shelley.” Kubrick would often put intense pressure on Duvall, saying she was wasting everyone’s time on set, and basically that all of her ideas and suggestions were worthless.
>The result of this abusiveness can be seen in the famous baseball-bat scene, which was done in 127 takes (the scene with the most takes ever with spoken dialogue, according to Guinness Book of World Records). Jack Nicholson is menacing Duvall, and she is swinging a bat at him in distress. Duvall was crying between takes and her hysteria was quite real by the time the director found his money shot.
Tarantino choked out the blonde chick in Inglorious Basterds himself because he wanted her to actually black out on camera
Aiden Fisher
127 takes of a scene with just her in it or with Jack? How is it that she's the only one tormented about it, it's not like she's the only one working on it. The crew, co stars etc had to do it 127 times as well.
Anthony Wilson
You know that Kubrick was very much of anti-jew and even talked shit about them?