Brooke Shields‘ documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” has been revealing some bomb shells of Brooke’s early career in acting.
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Her documentary explores how she was sexualized as a child actor starting from her first movie “Pretty Baby” in which she starred in as early as 11 years, and “Blue Lagoon” which she starred in at age 14.
As her documentary aired, viewers got to learn firsthand Brooke’s experience as a child star.
In a recent appearance at Drew Barrymore a fellow child star’s talk show “The Drew Barrymore Show,” Brooke shared how she refused to pick up the call from “Blue Lagoon” director Randal Kleiser.
Brooke Shields — Brooke Let Randal’s Call Ring Through Voicemail
On the show, Drew inquired to know if any of the male directors Brooke worked with in early beginnings reached out to her following the documentary’s release.
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Brooke, first of all, shared that Louis Malle who directed her in “Pretty Baby” and Franco Zeffirelli her director in “Endless Love” are both dead, but, Randal Kleiser her director in “Blue Lagoon” reached out to her.
“I saw his name on my phone, and I was like, ‘Oh! Oh. What do I do?’ And I let it go to voicemail because I want to see what the tone is,” said Brooke before adding, “He wants to chat. I don’t know about what. I don’t feel like bringing any of it back up again. It’s not about that.”
Brooke went on to tell Drew that in her life as a child actress, she was treated as a “pawn,” and never protected.
“It was about these males needing me to be in a certain category to serve their story, and it never was about me. It was never protective of me. It was fun and loving at times, but I was just there. I was a pawn.”
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Brooke Shields — Brooke’s “Blue Lagoon” Co-star Christopher Atkins Confirmed Their Awkward Scenes
Brooke starred in the 1980 film “Blue Lagoon” when she was just 14 years. She starred alongside then 18 years Christopher Atkins as his cousin. In the film, the cousins became lovers and later bore a child.
Last year, Brooke sat with Christopher on the “Now What?” podcast to discuss their early days in acting and the things that won’t be tolerated in today’s world.
Speaking about their days filming “Blue Lagoon,” Brooke recalled, “We got there and they instantly wanted us to be tanned. Remember, they set up those little thatched areas so that we could get tanned without tan lines?”
Confirming what Brooke said, Christopher answered, “You were right next to me, and that was even stranger because you were only 14 at the time,”
“There were scenes that I was butt-naked with you, if you remember, sliding down that slide and things like that. And that was a little awkward, but it was kind of funny for me because, at this point in time, I just did it. But your reaction was, ‘Ugh, oh God.'”
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