In 2002, Shelley Duvall announced her retirement from acting. She hasn’t been seen in public since then. Apart from a memorable 2016 appearance on the Dr. Phil program, which was widely panned due to its exploitative nature in light of Duvall’s mental state.

The 71-year-old actress commented on creating the 1980 horror classic ‘The Shining,’ which took 56 weeks to film and holds the Guinness World Record for “most retakes for one scene with dialogue” in a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter released on Thursday.

The film, directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel, stars Duvell as Wendy Torrence, the wife of Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson), who is driven insane by the strange events at the resort hotel.

Kubrick would shoot six days a week, up to 16 hours a day, according to the reclusive actress, who explained: “[Kubrick] doesn’t print anything until at least the 35th take.

“Thirty-five takes, running and crying and carrying a little boy, it gets hard. And full performance from the first rehearsal. That’s difficult.”

Duvall stated she would “listen to sad songs” before each scene or “just think about something very sad in your life or how much you miss your family and friends” to get into the correct mindset.

“But after a while, your body rebels. It says, ‘Stop doing this to me. I don’t want to cry everyday.’

“And sometimes just that thought alone would make me cry.”

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“To wake up on a Monday morning, so early, and realize that you had to cry all day because it was scheduled — I would just start crying. I’d be like, ‘Oh no, I can’t, I can’t.’ And yet I did it. I don’t know how I did it. Jack [Nicholson] said that to me, too. He said, ‘I don’t know how you do it.’ ”

While Duvall confessed that Stanley Kubrick was needlessly harsh, vicious, and violent throughout the filming schedule, she supported him by claiming that he had been subjected to the same kind of abuse in the past. She had no hard feelings toward Kubrick since, according to her, he was “warm and friendly” to Duvall behind the scenes, spending hours speaking with her and Nicholson while the crew waited indignantly. He would disregard the crew’s genuine appeals, “Stanley, we have 60 people waiting,” and go on with his own vision.

Anjelica Huston, who at the time was dating Nicholson, had a different opinion.

“I got the feeling, certainly through what Jack was saying at the time, that Shelley was having a hard time just dealing with the emotional content of the piece. And they didn’t seem to be all that sympathetic. It seemed to be a little bit like the boys were ganging up,” she told THR. “That might have been completely my misread on the situation, but I just felt it. And when I saw her during those days, she seemed a generally a bit tortured, shook up. I don’t think anyone was being particularly careful of her.”