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Brooke Shields Doc ‘Pretty Baby’ Is Now Being Streamed on Hulu

Brooke Shields Doc ‘Pretty Baby’ Is Now Being Streamed on Hulu
Published 2 years ago on Apr 03, 2023

In the two-part documentary, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the actor and model opens up for the first time about her earliest experiences in Hollywood. The film tracks her rise as a child advertising model to her sexualization in movies, starting at age 12, in “Pretty Baby” (1978), and then at 15, in “The Blue Lagoon” (1980).

“I spent my life owing people things and doing whatever they wanted,” Shields says in a new teaser dropped Wednesday morning. “I finally asked myself, ‘What will I be if I don’t allow that anymore?'”

Shields’ experience with older men on set as a child is a common theme in her recollections. In “Blue Lagoon,” a perverse film about two teenagers falling in love, 15 year-old Shields was forced to be sexual on camera despite never having been sexual with a man before. The next movie she shot “Endless Love” was directed by the late Italian filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli, who began twisting Shields’ toe as punishment for not portraying sex in the correct way.

“Zeffirelli kept grabbing my toe and, like, twisting it so that I had a look of… I guess ecstasy?” Shields recalls in the documentary. “But it was more angst than anything, because he was hurting me.”

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In the two-part documentary, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the actor and model opens up for the first time about her earliest experiences in Hollywood. The film tracks her rise as a child advertising model to her sexualization in movies, starting at age 12, in “Pretty Baby” (1978), and then at 15, in “The Blue Lagoon” (1980).

“I spent my life owing people things and doing whatever they wanted,” Shields says in a new teaser dropped Wednesday morning. “I finally asked myself, ‘What will I be if I don’t allow that anymore?'”

Shields’ experience with older men on set as a child is a common theme in her recollections. In “Blue Lagoon,” a perverse film about two teenagers falling in love, 15 year-old Shields was forced to be sexual on camera despite never having been sexual with a man before. The next movie she shot “Endless Love” was directed by the late Italian filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli, who began twisting Shields’ toe as punishment for not portraying sex in the correct way.

“Zeffirelli kept grabbing my toe and, like, twisting it so that I had a look of… I guess ecstasy?” Shields recalls in the documentary. “But it was more angst than anything, because he was hurting me.”

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