Brooke Shields slams Endless Love director who grabbed and twisted her TOE so she could make ‘ecstasy face’ in virginity loss scene as a 15-year-old – and bashes Blue Lagoon director for trying to ‘sell her own sexual awakening’
- Brooke Shields said Endless Love director Franco Zeffirelli’s behavior made her uncomfortable while shooting the movie when she was just 15 years old
- She also accused the the producers of Blue Lagoon of exploiting her sexuality
- Her comments come in Shields new documentary released on Hulu on April 3
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Brooke Shields recalled with disgust how the director of Endless Love twisted her toe during a sex scene to try to make an ‘ecstasy face’ when she was just 15 years old.
In her new documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the actress said director Franco Zeffirelli’s behavior on set made her feel so uncomfortable she had to ‘disassociate’ from herself for the rest of production.
She also recounted the experience of working on The Blue Lagoon – the story of a young boy and girl’s sexual awaking – when she was just 14, and criticized the production team for trying to make a ‘reality show’ out of the movie by focusing heavily on her own sexuality.
Throughout the documentary, Shields, 57, discussed how she was sexualized in the media as a young girl and throughout her teens, and reflected on how that affected her life.
The two-part documentary was released on Hulu on April 3.
Brooke Shields appears in her new Hulu documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields appears in The Blue Lagoon at just 14, a movie where she was nude throughout
On the set of Endless Love, Shields said Zeffirelli was equally exploitive of her sexuality.
‘The physicality and the exploration of sexuality felt really dangerous to me,’ she said. ‘I didn’t trust the director to create a safe environment for me.’
She said that culminated in the shooting of the scene where her character loses her virginity – a sex scene she was already uncomfortable about shooting – when Zeffirelli violently twisted her toe to force her to make a face that looked like ‘I had a feeling of, sort of, I guess, ecstasy.’
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‘His thing was ‘the look on your face it has to be ecstasy,’ she said. ‘But it was more angst than anything, because he was hurting me.’
‘I thought as myself as just the sort of the workhorse. It was transactional,’ she said.
‘I didn’t want to appear stupid or untalented, so I just disassociated, she recalled. ‘You instantly become a vapor of yourself around something that’s happening to you.’
Shields said she ‘shut down’ on set for the rest of production after that incident.
Brooke Shields with Endless Love director Franco Zeffirelli. She was just 15 in the movie
Brooke Shields appears in Endless Love. She was just 15 years old when the movie was filmed
Though just 14 years old during the shooting of The Blue Lagoon, Shields was no stranger to being sexualized after having played a prostitute in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby at just 11 years old.
Before that, she had also been photographed nude in a Playboy publication at just 10 years old.
By the time she reached the Blue Lagoon set – a film famous for its pervasive nudity – Shields recalled how director Randal Kleiser was determined to exploit that sexualized image by making it appear she as person was experiencing a sexual awakening at the same time as the character she portrayed.
The documentary quoted Kleiser as telling a newspaper ‘It’s real, she’s going from a child to a woman during the filming.’
Shields expressed her disgust with Kleiser’s intentions.
‘They wanted to make it reality show,’ she said. ‘They wanted to sell my actual sexual awakening.’
