Shelley Duvall Reflects on Retirement From Acting and Recent Return to Hollywood: ‘It’s Violence’ [Video]

After more than two decades away from the public eye, Shelley Duvall is opening up about her mysterious retirement from acting, and what has inspired her return to Hollywood.

In a lengthy New York Timesprofile, the 74-year-old discusses her wide-spanning career after she made her acting debut in director Robert Altman’s 1970 dark comedy Brewster McCloud. Duvall went on to have acclaimed leading roles in films like Popeye and The Shining and won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the 1977 drama 3 Women. In the 1980s, she went into producing television programming for children and youth, earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

In 2002, Duvall appeared in her final film, Manna From Heaven, before announcing her retirement from acting.

“I was a star; I had leading roles,” she tells the outlet. “People …