This Friday the documentary about her life by Brooke Shields, Pretty Baby, premiered on the Sundance Film Festival, the place the actress and mannequin confesses that she was raped when she was a teen, at first of her profession.
The movie provides an in-depth take a look at Shields’ life, together with her rise to fame, her difficult relationship along with her mom (Teri Shields, who was an alcoholic) and her “sexual objectification” by the media and business.
“I feel there is a positivity to my specific journey and perseverance and onerous work,” Shields stated throughout the premiere. “I feel we have made progress. I feel individuals are telling extra of their tales and that enables us to begin altering the way in which we discuss it.”
Directed by Lana Wilson, the documentary takes its title from the 1978 movie ‘Pretty Baby’ by Louis Malle, a drama a couple of younger intercourse employee, performed by 11-year-old Shields, in New Orleans in 1917. In the movie, written by Polly Platt, kisses 29-year-old Keith Carradine, and likewise seems nude.
It was not the primary, nor wouldn’t it be the final time that the media sexualized her. At 15 she filmed ‘The Blue Lagoon’ after which got here ‘Endless Love’. Both motion pictures had intercourse scenes and nudity.
When she was 16 and already a world star, a household good friend and photographer tried to promote nude pictures he had taken of her when Brooke Shields was simply 9 years outdated. Her mom sued her. They went to court docket. She gained the photographer.
But the most important reveal within the film is that she was sexually assaulted as a teen and early in her profession.
“I feel she’s smarter, stronger and extra fearless than even her most die-hard followers notice. I’m in awe of Brooke’s braveness,” stated director Lana Wilson.
Shields, who’s now 57 years outdated, acknowledges that he has solely now discovered the power to make that documentary after years of remedy.