In her forthcoming documentary about her life and lengthy profession, Brooke Shields describes in element an assault she skilled by the hands of anyone she phrases “an industry insider”.
The actress and writer tells how she was in her early 20s when she met the person – somebody she thought-about a good friend – for dinner, then went to his lodge room to order a cab residence whereas he left the room. Soon, she describes, he returned to the room the place he attacked her.
“He was right on me. It was just like wrestling,” she says, and provides that, on the time, she blamed herself for consuming wine and going to his room.
She recounts the story in the ABC News/Hulu Lana Wilson-directed docuseries Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields that premiered at Sundance. Pretty Baby – named after one in all her movies – which explores the way in which she turned an object of sexual want whereas nonetheless a younger teenager by a trio of movies – Pretty Baby, The Blue Lagoon and Endless Love – in addition to her ads for Calvin Klein denims. At 14, she turned the youngest ever mannequin to be on the duvet of Vogue journal.
Shields has at all times beforehand mentioned that, regardless of her sexualised picture and her world fame at a young age, she at all times escaped the worst sorts of behaviour now extensively detailed in the #MeToo motion – due, she thought, to her personal conservative angle and her fiercely protecting mother-manager Teri, who would accompany her on movie units and excursions.
However, the documentary additionally reveals how uncomfortable Shields felt as a younger actress throughout intercourse scenes like these shot by Endless Love director Franco Zeffirelli, one thing she talked to Deadline about on the Sundance pageant. And she has beforehand informed how the producers inspired an off-screen romance between her and Blue Lagoon co-star Christopher Atkins, regardless of their ages of 14 and 18 respectively.
Pretty Baby was screened on the Sundance Film Festival and is coming quickly to Hulu.
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