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Shelley Duvall was "in good shape mentally" on final film set, motivated to reshape her legacy

Actor Shelley Duvall was "in good shape mentally" on her final film set according and was motivated to reshape her legacy.

Directed by Scott Goldberg, the film stars Chiko Mendez as Rico, a man who starts to experience “nightmare visions” of his mother (played by Duvall) after suffering a head trauma. Her performance in The Shining is one of the greatest in cinema history,” he began before explaining that he’d approached her longtime partner, Dan Gilroy, (former singer of Breakfast Club) and she agreed to take part: “I didn’t hold out much hope. He explained: “Playing Mama, the matriarch who goads our antihero, was a challenge for her as she’d not previously taken on such a menacing character…She really dug deep and turned in a powerful, nuanced performance that’s unlike anything I’ve seen her do before.

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