Brooke Shields discusses the exploitation and over-sexualization she experienced as a child in the new trailer for the upcoming doc, 'Pretty Baby.'
The two-part doc, directed by Lana Wilson, delves into Shields’ career, as she rose from a child model to an actor, taking on controversial roles in films like Louis Malle’s. In the Eighties, as a teenager, Shields’ popularity exploded with roles in movies like“The entirety of my life, it was, ‘She’s a pretty face,’ over and over and over and over,” Shields recalls in the opening moments of the trailer. “And that always, just, seared me.
Along with offering Shields the space to open up about the scrutiny and discomfort that surrounded her fame, the film looks at broader trends, such as how the sexualization of young girls appeared to be a backlash to the feminist movement, and how impossibly high-beauty standards for young women remain the standard. The trailer also teases some interviews with Shields’ friends and peers, including Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore.
by an unnamed Hollywood executive. The assault occurred more than 30 years ago, at a time when Shields was struggling to find work as an actress. After dinner with a Hollywood executive, whom she thought might shave a role for her, the executive invited her to call for a cab from his hotel room, where she says he assaulted her.
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