Brooke Shields on filming nude scenes in ‘Blue Lagoon’: ‘It wouldn’t be allowed’ today
Brooke Shields doesn’t believe a movie “like that” will ever be made again.
“It wouldn’t be allowed,” Shields, who was 14 while filming the movie and is now 57, reflected during an episode of her “Now What?” podcast released Tuesday. Her co-star Christopher Atkins, 61, joined the show to reminisce on their experiences working together.
“Animals were hurt in the movie,” Shields said. “We were spearing fish and all kinds of crazy things. Children are naked running down a beach.”
Atkins, who was 18 at the time, later added: “There were scenes where 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 would just do it.”
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As a young teenager, Shields said she hadn’t “really kissed anybody by that age,” recalling how “they wanted us so desperately to fall in love with each other” off-camera.
“It also struck me, too, because I remember thinking, ‘Hey, let’s just get to know each other first rather than trying to make us fall in love with each other and force the situation,’ ” Shields said. “And I didn’t react well to being forced into feeling anything. I wanted to sort of be left a little bit to my own.”
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Outside her work, Shields continues to push past the stigma around aging, calling the social push for acceptance relatively new. Throughout her decades-long career in modeling and acting, beauty has typically been conflated with youth, which the “Blue Lagoon” star called disappointing.
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