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What was it like to do an open call audition for a classic role in Stanley Kubrick’s class The Shining…and you’re only 4 years old? Dan Lloyd, who played the iconic role of Danny in Kubrick’s adaptation of the Stephen King story, describes auditioning and then getting the role. It was his fifth birthday when he learned he got the role and his family moved to England for the shoot.

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Film critic Alexander Walker discusses why American director Stanley Kubrick was “in awe” of actor and comedian Peter Sellers. Walker says of Kubrick: “Stanley couldn’t write and he couldn’t act”–therefore, Kubrick admired actors who could bring more zest and creative flourishes into their scripted roles, which Sellers could do very well. The two worked together on the 1962 film, “Lolita” and “Dr. Strangelove” in 1963. Walker himself describes his admiration for Sellers: “Peter could assume disguises and he could assume vocal disguises. And he could make Stanley laugh. And that was very difficult.”

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Christiane Kubrick, wife of Stanley Kubrick, explains why her husband was a great director, but a terrible actor. She remembers why he wouldn’t do interviews and discusses his terrible stage fright. Kubrick passed away on March 7, 1999.

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Steven Spielberg remembers one of the best directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick, commenting on the first time he met him, his inspiration on Spielberg, and the “craft” of his filmmaking. Kubrick passed away in 1999, but his work well-known work live on in such films as “The Shining” and “A Clockwork Orange.”

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