In September 1980, Duvall spoke to the BBC her intense role and what it was like to work with the meticulous director. "My stamina has increased so much since The Shining," she said. "The role required me to cry, all day long, every day – it was so difficult being hysterical for that length of time."
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After doing many repeated takes, Duvall told the BBC, "you forget all reality other than what you're doing – it's like a miracle, it comes out better than it did before – and it's fresh, too".
"I was very pleased to have done it," she told Film 80's presenter Barry Norman, "because I learned more on that picture – and strengthened myself, and broadened the scale that my emotions can reach, I think, more than any other picture I've ever done."
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