Blue Lagoon was nonetheless a highly-controversial movie when it debuted over 40 years in the past. But now, star Brooke Shields would not consider a film “like that” will ever be made once more.
“It wouldn’t be allowed,” Shields, who was 14 whereas filming the film and is now 57, mirrored throughout an episode of her Now What? podcast launched Tuesday (Dec 20).
Her co-star Christopher Atkins, 61, joined the present to reminisce on their experiences working collectively.
“Animals had been harm in the film,” Shields stated. “We had been spearing fish and all types of loopy issues. Children are bare working down a seaside.”
Atkins, who was 18 on the time, later added: “There had been scenes the place I used to be butt bare with you, for those who keep in mind, sliding down that slide and issues like that. And that was somewhat awkward, nevertheless it was sort of humorous for me as a result of at this level in time I’d simply do it.”
As a younger teenager, Shields stated she hadn’t “actually kissed anyone by that age,” recalling how “they wished us so desperately to fall in love with one another” off-camera.
“It additionally struck me, too, as a result of I keep in mind considering, ‘Hey, let’s simply get to know one another first quite than attempting to make us fall in love with one another and drive the state of affairs’,” Shields stated. “And I did not react properly to being compelled into feeling something. I wished to form of be left somewhat bit to my very own.”
Shields has continued to carry out since Blue Lagoon, from 1981’s Endless Love and later initiatives together with TV’s Jane The Virgin and The Middle and 2021’s Netflix vacation rom-com A Castle For Christmas.
Actress Brooke Shields (left) along with her daughter Rowan Francis Henchy. Photo: AFP
Outside her work, Shields continues to push previous the stigma round ageing, calling the social push for acceptance comparatively new. Throughout her decades-long profession in modelling and performing, magnificence has usually been conflated with youth, which the Blue Lagoon star referred to as disappointing.
“I dealt with it by getting annoyed and saying: ‘OK. This is ridiculous.’ I wanted to amass this group and actually say it isn’t about being ageless. There’s vitality that comes with this demographic,” Shields stated in a 2021 interview with USA Today.
She created her wellness firm, Beginning is Now, to empower girls of all ages to reside their fullest lives. Reflecting on her personal profession, Shields needs different girls to really feel empowered at each stage.
Her power was made evident in February 2021, when she broke her femur in a stability board accident. It was a bodily gruelling expertise, for which she even refused to take prescription painkillers. But the highway to restoration reassured her of her resilience.
“It was in all probability probably the most troublesome factor bodily I needed to endure,” Shields stated. “Learning stroll once more and actually having to start out contemporary and being in the hospital for a month on my own was undoubtedly a check to my spirit.” – USA Today/Tribune News Service
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