Brooke Shields Says 'Blue Lagoon' Director Randal Kleiser Reached Out to Her After Seeing 'Pretty Baby' Doc

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Brooke Shields' Hulu docuseries,, is getting attention from both fans and those from her past. On Tuesday's episode of, the 57-year-old actress reveals that director Randal Kleiser reached out to her after watching the doc.«I saw his name on my phone and I was like, ‘What do I do?’ and I let it go to voicemail because I was like, I want to see what the tone is.

And he wants to chat, I don’t know about what, I don’t feel like bringing any of it back up again,» she says of possibly speaking with the 76-year-old filmmaker., released in 1980, takes place in the Victorian period when two children who are cousins, played by Shields and Christopher Atkins, are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific.

With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.Brooke Shields in the 1980 movie, 'The Blue Lagoon.'Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins in 'The Blue Lagoon.'Shields was around 14 years old when she started filming the movie while Atkins was four years older than her.

The young co-stars were portrayed as nude for most of the movie, with Shields' long hair covering up her body.The actress says in that to market the movie «they wanted to sell my actual sexual awakening.» She notes in the docuseries, «The irony was, I wasn't in touch with any of my own sexuality.»In the doc, Kleiser is quoted as telling a newspaper of Shields, «It's real, she's going from a child to a woman during the filming.»As for having a conversation with Kleiser now, Shields tells Barrymore, «It’s not about that, but it was about these males needing me to be in a certain category to serve their story, and it never was about me, it was not protective of me.