00:00Now, the one who's really going to be subjected to Kubrick's dubious methods is Shelley Dival.
00:04Wendy's character is a lonely woman, shy and scared by her husband's behavior.
00:08Kubrick therefore simply isolated the actress and forbade the crew from interacting positively with her.
00:14The proof is in this passage in the making-of, or of Good Morning, when Jack Nicholson arrives on the set,
00:19He passes the actress but does not speak to her.
00:22Not a hello, not a glance.
00:24So it's not Nicholson's fault, since we see him a little earlier brushing his teeth out of respect for his partner,
00:29but the instructions come from higher up and they must be respected,
00:32because nobody says no to Stanley Kubrick.
00:34For 11 months, she will have to cry and scream in front of the camera during takes that will be repeated again and again.
01:02She fell ill during filming, even losing her hair in front of a Kubrick who couldn't care less.
01:09Before shooting a scene, I would listen to sad songs, or think about something sad,
01:20or to my friends and family who I missed.
01:22But after a while, the body rebels.
01:24He says stop doing this to me, I don't want to cry every day.
01:27And sometimes, just that thought could make me cry.
01:30Waking up one Monday morning, very early, to realize that I had to cry all day because it was planned,
01:35I started to cry.
01:36I thought I couldn't do it, and yet I did it.
01:39I don't know how.
01:40Jack told me that too.
01:41He said to me, I don't know how you do it.
01:43This is one of the many testimonies of the actress years later,
01:45who also claims that she has no regrets and understands what Stanley Kubrick wanted to do.
01:50A kind of Stockholm syndrome given what she has been through,
01:53sadly entering the Guinness Book of Records with the most-shot scene in history,
01:57this one immortalized 127 times.
02:20So we have a person who is sensitive, mentally fragile,
02:46who receives neither help nor encouragement from his director,
02:49even worse, which will touch sensitive chords, mistreat her,
02:53on the pretext that this method will allow him to better enter into his character.
02:56From there, one can honestly ask where the limit is,
02:59especially when you consider that the treatment given to Nicholson was markedly different.
03:19And it wasn't completely ineffectual.
03:23I mean, I've been unwound sometimes, I have to admit.
03:27Why was that?
03:29Yes, it was mainly between takes, not during work.
03:32I mean, when we worked on a scene, it didn't go smoothly at all.
03:36But, on occasion, when we have worked on a scene,
03:43or going to work, or going to our inhabitants,
03:50etc., I mean, I was unrolled,
03:54I was unrolled, because he was very, very, very careful.
04:00And I guess I like attention.
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