Brooke Shields revealed in her new documentary, "Pretty Baby," that she was sexually assaulted shortly after graduating from college in 1987.
“I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on. “I believed somehow I put out a message and that was how the message was received. “He said to me, ‘I can trust you and I can’t trust people.’ It’s so cliché, it’s practically pathetic,” she said. Just like, was wrestling,” she said, explaining that she didn’t fight out of fear. I didn’t. “I put the binoculars down and he’s right on me.
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” -- which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival -- reveals the actress was objectified and mistreated by Hollywood and the ...
“And that just seared me.” “The door opens, and the person comes out naked,” she said. “I cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.” “We had dinner and I thought it was a work meeting,” she said. “He was hurting me.” “It was a survival technique.”
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"They wanted to make it a reality show," she says in the documentary. She was making her first real attempt to get back in front of the camera when the sexual assault happened, she says. "I just absolutely froze," she says in the film. I just cried all the way to my friend's apartment." I went down in the elevator, and I got my own cab. "He said, 'Come back to the hotel and I'll call a cab.' And I go up to the hotel room, and he disappears for awhile. The door opens, the person comes out naked, and I've got the binoculars and I'm like, 'S....' And I put the binoculars down and he's right on me. "I thought it was a work meeting. "I thought one 'no' should've been enough, and I just thought, 'Stay alive and get out,' and I just shut it out. God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I had met this person before, and he was always nice to me," Shields says in the film, according to [Brooke Shields](https://www.upi.com/topic/Brooke_Shields/) got a standing ovation Friday at the Sundance Film Festival following the premiere of a new documentary in which she alleges she was raped by an unnamed Hollywood figure.
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields included digs at Tom Cruise's response to postpartum depression and exploitative male auteurs. Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon ...
Focusing on Shields's op-ed in response to Cruise’s criticisms of antidepressants, The Eccles Theater audience reportedly erupted as Shields’ New York Times headline “What Tom Cruise Doesn’t Know About Estrogen” flashed across the screen. Appearances range from Drew Barrymore’s discussion of the pressures of childhood acting and darker implications to feminist cultural historical commentary on the distinct advent of girls’ sexualization in the 70s. Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields follows Shields through her increasing sexualization in early television commercial work, as well as her blowout role as a 12-year-old in Pretty Baby, which the documentaries title is based on.
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Classic: The stunner wore a go-to staple of hers, a pair of thinly-rimmed aviator eyeglasses, which nicely complemented her look Her look: The blonde Nightcap star wore a chunky turtleneck sweater with a blended fabric The stunner wore a go-to staple of hers, a pair of thinly-rimmed aviator eyeglasses, which nicely complemented her look.
In the documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Shields told of being attacked shortly after graduating from Princeton in 1987.
I went up to the room. I just was so trusting.' I just absolutely froze. She said she left the hotel after the attack, got in a cab and 'cried all the way to my friend's apartment.' She said there was a pair of binoculars in the room, and she picked them up to watch some volleyball players out of the window. - The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, and revealed that Shields was raped by a man after a meeting in around 1987
Brooke Shields reveals she was the victim of a sexual assault in "Pretty Baby," a new documentary about her life premiering at Sundance Film Festival.
"He grabbed my toe and kept twisting it, so I had a look of, I guess, ecstasy," an emotional Shields recalls. She also remembers shooting a sex scene for 1981's "Endless Love" when she was only 16, alleging that director Franco Zeffirelli hurt her in order to get his desired reaction. As it was happening, "I just shut it out," she says. "That's my little sister and I wanted her to know she didn't do anything wrong." "Brooke is like a work of art," Teri says of her then-young daughter in archival footage. "I had met this person before and he was always nice to me." The two-part documentary, which is set to stream on Hulu later this year, explores Shields' fast rise as a child model and the troubling way she was sexualized from a young age. "I thought it was a work meeting," Shields explains in the documentary. The documentary revisits the many ways Shields was exploited as an underage girl. I practiced that (as a model)." Shields offered to get her own cab home, but the man insisted that he call one for her back at his hotel. Feeling vulnerable, and questioning whether her career had already peaked, she jumped at the opportunity to discuss a new movie role when an acquaintance asked her to dinner.
Brooke Shields lashed out on Tom Cruise for branding her dangerous. Pretty Baby shares the inspiring story of The Blue Lagoon star.
Endless Love star has inspired many other women through her book and documentary to come up and speak for themselves by breaking any sort of social taboo. Tom Cruise, responded to this book by commenting that Shields is promoting anti-depressants and even alleged her as ‘dangerous’ out loud in public. The actress surely made her acting come back and rose to prominence once again by starring in series like Suddenly Susan. I didn’t want to lose to that. The Blue Lagoon actress had to face explicit photoshoots and a jealous drunk mother while growing up. Also Read:
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Brooke Shields reveals that she was the victim of a sexual assault in a new documentary about her life that premiered Friday afternoon at the Sundance Film.
But there is a cultural context that she helps craft in the film that is not in the memoirs. “It’s something she’s grappled with for a long time and is grappling with still. There are things in the memoirs that aren’t in the film. “Teri became the scapegoat when much bigger questions should have been asked of the people who really had power and of everyone watching it.” “But I was curious at the same time.” One of Shields’ biggest concerns in starting the project was that her late mother would be vilified all over again. “She’s sitting there with a series of male talk show hosts being complimented on her beauty and her body and her sensuality, but at the same time being criticized for being an exhibitionist, for going too far, for appearing in what some said was child pornography,” Wilson said. At 15 she shot “Blue Lagoon,” then came “Endless Love.” Both had sex and nudity. It wasn’t the first, nor would it be the last time she was sexualized by the media. “I thought my one ‘no’ should have been enough.” Later, when she told her friend, security specialist Gavin de Becker, about what happened, he said, “That’s rape.” At the time she wasn’t ready to believe it. In the film, written by Polly Platt, she kisses a 29-year-old Keith Carradine and also appears nude. The assault happened when she went to his hotel room to call a cab.
The new two-part Hulu documentary, 'Pretty Baby,' recounts the harrowing experience amidst Shields' rise to fame.
I practiced that (as a model)." She continued, saying that during the rape, "I just shut it out. After dinner, the man insisted that Shields accompany him back to his hotel, where he would call her a cab. I played the scene out in my head, so I didn't fight that much...I just absolutely froze. But as the meal continued, "his behavior was changing, and there was no talk about the movie." In the film, Shields explains how she struggled to get acting jobs after graduating college.
Brooke Shields opens up about her relationship with Michael Jackson and what led to their falling out in the new documentary 'Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.'
"What it was was a young man who kept reaching to try to find happiness," she told Rolling Stone following his death. Still, she says Jackson was enamored with being seen with her. Despite her public image as a sex symbol, Shields says she wasn't "in touch" with her sexuality until much later in life. "Both of us needed to be adults very early, but when we were together, we were two little kids having fun." Shields met Jackson when she was 13 and the two became fast friends. In the film, Shields maintains that, despite Jackson's repeated claims to the contrary, the two never dated or had a sexual relationship.
he was born on May 31, 1965 in New York, United States, her full name is Brooke Christa Camilla Shield. She is a former model and actress.
Kennedy Jr., after 4 years of relationship she marries the tennis player Andre Agassi but this link lasted very little time they divorced in 1999. However, her mother was highly criticized for agreeing to cast her daughter in that role. Brooke, 13 years old, played the role of Violet, a child prostitute, and this film was the one that launched her to stardom. Later, when Brooke was a little older, her mother and manager did everything to make her daughter known. When she was 10 years old her parents divorced. Raised in an aristocratic family in Virginia, United States.
In Brooke Shields' new documentary "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields," the clash between Shields and Tom Cruise from 2005 is revisited.
The Eccles applauded in delight, and did so again after actor Judd Nelson quotes his friend Shields at the time: 'Tom Cruise should stick to fighting aliens,'" writes Variety. [CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER](https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl) [Brooke Shields](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/brooke-shields-women-over-40-unrepresented-career-put-out-pasture) two-part documentary, "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields" debuted to an eager crowd, earning the film a standing ovation, as reported by Variety. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease." She also added, "Comments like those made by Tom Cruise are a disservice to mothers everywhere. In a conversation with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, Cruise discussed his problems with psychiatric drugs.
Brooke Shields of 'Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields' at the Deadline Studio during the 2023 Sundance Film Festival at the Hotel Park City on January 21, 2023 in Park ...
However, during the final stretch of the shoot, Zeffirelli told them they’d have to perform in the nude with body makeup “or the Picture would fail.” The suit claims that Paramount has made over a half billion from the lifetime monies on Romeo & Juliet. “It was a very different era in filmmaking and many different directors took liberties. The movie was one of a trio of R-rated sex-themed summer pics that Shields starred in, the previous ones being 1978’s Pretty Baby and 1980’s Blue Lagoon. “They were in charge and they were the star really”. “I was really shutdown after that,” Shields says during part one of the docuseries, “I though of myself as just the work horse: They paid me, I did the thing, they sold it, everybody was happy, it was transactional.” In the Hulu doc, Shields confesses, “The physicality and the exploration of sexuality felt really dangerous to me, and I didn’t trust the director to create a safe environment for me.”
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Shields continued: “I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body, and just keep on the path I was on. “I had no idea I was going to say it. So, I just had to get stronger on my own.” And I just thought, ‘Stay alive, and get out.’ And I just shut it out. I definitely have worked very hard through it, and I’ve learned to process it.” “It has taken me many years of therapy to even be able to talk about it.