The Shining with Danny Lloyd (ft. guest co-host Mike Flanagan)

Episode 240,   Jul 17, 08:00 AM

Danny Torrance himself, Mr. Dan Lloyd, joins Vespe and guest co-host Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) to talk about his work on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. While he appeared in a few other things, Lloyd quickly left the Hollywood lifestyle and is now a teacher, but he still made time to come on the show, look back at his fuzzy childhood memories of Kubrick, the late, great Shelley Duvall, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, and Kubrick's right hand man, Leon Vitali. What are his fondest memories of shooting? What was it like meeting Jack Nicholson for the first time? What's the legacy of the film mean to him? And what about all the crazy conspiracy theories tied to his sweater? All these questions and so much more are covered.

The Shining was released in 1980 to tepid critical response and weak financial success, but it has aged like a fine wine and is now considered a genre masterpiece. It's hard to deny that the movie's iconography is even stronger today than it was upon release, and that's thanks in no small part to young Danny Lloyd's central performance.
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