Brooke Shields Is Ignoring Calls From ‘Blue Lagoon’ Director Following Tell-All ‘Pretty Baby’ Documentary

Brooke Shields isn’t answering calls now, and especially not from male directors who objectified her in her childhood. The actor opened up about the response to her Hulu documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields during a segment on The Drew Barrymore Show, which airs today.

In a teaser clip shared on the talk show’s social media, host Drew Barrymore asked Shields if she’s picked up any calls from the male directors who were mentioned in the documentary. 

The two clarified that Louis Malle and Franco Zeffirelli — the directors behind Pretty Baby and Endless Love — are both dead; however, The Blue Lagoon filmmaker Randal Kleiser has since reached out to Shields. 

“I saw his name on my phone and I was like, ‘Oh, what do I do?’ And I let it go to voicemail because I was like, ‘Oh, I want to see what the tone is,’” Shields said.

The actor appeared nervous as she recalled her experience receiving the phone call. “He wants to chat, I don’t know about what,” she explained to Barrymore. 

Shields said she has not returned Klesier’s call because she doesn’t “feel like bringing any of it back up again.”

She explained that these male directors created movies that sexualized her while she was underage and they needed her “to be in a certain category to serve their story.” She said, “It never was about me. It was never protective of me. It was fun and loving at times, but it was just there.”

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Shields added, “I was a pawn, I was a piece, I was a commodity.”

The actor, who is now 57, played a child sex worker in Pretty Baby when she was 11 years old. Shields then went on to act in The Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, at ages 14 and 16, both of which were controversial because of the amount of nudity required on her behalf. In the documentary, Shields’ two daughters compared the films to “child pornography.”

Speaking about Shields’ role in Pretty Baby, which required her to be nude twice, her daughter Grier Hammond Henchy said, “You were 11, you weren’t old enough to be making your own decisions. Other people signed off being, like, ‘Oh no, she’s fine. You can take her top off, she’s fine.’”

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields is currently streaming on Hulu. The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays on CBS. You can check the website for local airtimes.