Is Shelley Duvall really demented? According to the National Enquirer, she thinks aliens are trying to communicate with her. I hope it's not true.
While looking up Shelley Duvall on the internet, I stumbled across this brief interview with one of the producers of Faerie Tale Theatre. It has some interesting tidbits about the stars featured in the series.
In Beauty and the Beast, we had a hard time with Klaus Kinski.
Susan Sarandon played Beauty, and at one point, he was walking down the
hallway carrying her for a scene, and Roger Vadim, our director, yelled
"cut," and he just dropped her. It was really tense between them.
Later, when he turns into a prince, he brought in Thomas Gainsborough's
painting "Blue Boy," and said he wanted to look exactly like that. We
brought in rubber bands to pull his skin back to make him look . . .
more princely. We're filming and we do this effect where he turns from
the beast into the prince and Susan Sarandon's line is, "Are such
miracles possible?" She couldn't say the line without cracking up. He
was getting angrier and angrier and the bands holding his skin back
started popping.
I'm sorry, but that cracks me up.
Well, this IS the National Enquirer we're talking about. Take it with a grain of salt. There was a tip I had from someone earlier in the year that Duvall was set for a comeback and may have been cast in a theatrical role here in New York. But it turned out to be bullshit.
What I do think is that Duvall has been unfairly slammed and speculated upon. She has the right to her privacy. And if she has specific reasons for not acting, they are hers and not ours. I find this invasion into her privacy most distasteful. But then, here in America, we're not known for revering our eccentrics. Particularly these days.
Posted by: ed | August 05, 2009 at 09:34 PM
You're right. I just hope she's okay.
Posted by: Megg | August 06, 2009 at 03:56 PM
The only word for her is transplendid.
Klaus Kinski is a strange bird alright. The commentary track of AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD is basically just Werner Herzog remembering Kinski doing suicidal and/or nutjob things.
Posted by: Kevin | August 07, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Kevin, if you haven't seen it already, you should rent Herzog's documentary about their relationship called My Best Fiend. It's amazing that they managed to make five films together considering they were always putting each other through hell.
Posted by: Megg | August 09, 2009 at 01:00 PM
I haven't seen it, or even heard about it -- sounds like a definite Netflixer.
Posted by: Kevin | August 10, 2009 at 07:45 PM