 Much like the casting of the "Jack" character,  Stephen King (I) (qv) also disliked the casting of  Shelley Duvall (qv) as "Wendy." King said that he envisioned Wendy  as being a blond former cheerleader type who never had to deal with  any true problems in her life making her experience in the Overlook  all the more terrifying. He felt that Duvall was too emotionally  vulnerable and appeared to have gone through a lot in her life,  basically the exact opposite of how he pictured the character.