‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Star Reflects On Her Body Of Work, Motherhood & Finally Getting To Tell Her Own Story – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted
deadline.comBrooke 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.
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