Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

For weeks, Kubrick pushed Duvall to the brink of sanity. Duvall was forced to cry so often and for such great lengths of time that she had to keep a water bottle nearby to stay hydrated. Her hair was falling out in clumps. Still, Kubrick didn't care—he made Duvall perform a record-setting 127 takes of the baseball bat scene. Duvall's co-star Jack Nicholson credited her with "the toughest job that any actor I've seen had, because forty percent of that movie, she's hysterical," but he believed that perhaps there was a method to Kubrick's madness.

"He beat Shelley into that performance," Nicholson said. "If that was me, I don't know what I would do. I do not. I still wonder. You're supposed to be able to do it, but for four months? But she did. She's brilliant in the movie."

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