‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Star Reflects On Her Body Of Work, Motherhood & Finally Getting To Tell Her Own Story – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted
29.04.2023 - 21:35
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Brooke Sheilds takes control of the narrative by sharing her story in her own words in the Hulu documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, from director Lana Wilson.
From Matador Content and BedBy8 for ABC News Studio, the film follows Shields from her early years as a blossoming model and actress to her present day as a powerful woman, mother, wife and performer with a career spanning more than four decades. It also touches on her complicated relationship with her mother and manager Teri Shields and how working on early projects including Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby, Randal Kleiser’s The Blue Lagoon and Franco Zeffirelli’s Endless Love — all before age 16 — left her vulnerable to public criticism and unwanted attention from adult men.
Now, Shields is ready to tell her story in her own words.
“It was the right time, and it also felt very good to finally — you know, nobody really ever asked me my opinion and nobody was really interested in it,” Shields said during a panel for the film at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event. “They wanted the narrative to be what they wanted to project onto it. So it was very important and very special for me to be able to say, ‘OK, you’ve all said what you had to say, now let me tell you the truth.’”
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Shields knew she was in the right hands with Wilson, already having been a fan of her body of work. But even with the right people on her team, the journey was emotional for the Suddenly Susan actress.
“It was everything; it was definitely very emotional,” she reflected. “There were parts of it that were cathartic. There were parts that made me sad. For the first time ever seeing my whole life
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