“We were wearing little strips of clothing, and my hair was taped on to my body to cover the boobs, which were very minimal anyway,” Brooke Shields remembered.
Stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins reunited on Shields’“Never again will a movie be made like that,” Shields conceded on Tuesday’s episode of ““Animals were hurt in the movie. We were spearing fish and all kinds of crazy things. Children are naked running down a beach,” she shared.
Shields, 57, and Atkins, 61, claim the production team wanted the pair to forge an off-screen relationship.Since Shields was so young playing Emmeline and hadn’t truly kissed anyone, she said she “didn’t react well to being forced into feeling anything.” “There were a lot of great, great moments that went on there, and I think it was a lot of that innocence that came off in the film that made it work even more,” he continued.Shields was only 14 when she filmed “The Blue Lagoon,” a movie that helped launch her lengthy Hollywood career.Bobby Bank/Getty Images
“The Blue Lagoon” follows two young children — cousins-turned-lovers — shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific.Atkins also recalled he and Shields being directed to tan nude before filming to avoid tan lines.
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