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Rare Footage Of Jack Nicholson Prepping For ‘The Shining’ (Video)

By Cory Buck

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Footage from filming of The Shining recently made its way to YouTube, in which viewers can see Jack Nicholson prepare for his iconic scene.

With Thanksgiving season upon us, let’s all be thankful for a few things. Family, food, and no crazed Jack Torrance hacking away at our doors with an axe. You’ll feel especially thankful for that last bit when you get a look at this rare footage of Jack Nicholson prepping for one of the best scenes of one of the most famous roles in his long cinematic career. Check it out below.

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Stanley Kubrick’s recreation of Stephen King’s The Shining is most well-known for Nicholson’s breakthrough performance and it’s inside looks like this that really highlight what a master Jack Nicholson was of his craft at the time. You do not want to get in his way even as he’s prepping for that role, taking a few air-swings at a nearby bed with his axe before the director calls for film to roll.

Stephen King’s works are seeing a resurgence of interest thanks to the announcement of film adaptations of The Stand, among others. While he’s always been one of the biggest novelists in his era and one whose works have easily translated to film, none of that silver screen success would be possible without great actors like Jack Nicholson. As we see above, Nicholson takes that responsibility as seriously as King does his writing.

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