Brooke Shields revealed she was raped as a younger Hollywood actress in new documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which premiered on day two of the Sundance movie pageant Friday.
The former supermodel didn’t reveal the id of her attacker, however stated she met with the person — somebody she already knew — quickly after she graduated faculty, believing it was a piece assembly to debate casting her in a brand new film.
He took her again to his lodge, claiming he would name her a taxi from his room. He as a substitute disappeared to the lavatory earlier than returning bare and assaulting her, she stated.
“I didn’t fight that much… I just absolutely froze,” Shields recalled within the documentary.
“I thought that my one ‘no’ should have been enough. And I just thought ‘stay alive and get out.'”
After the incident, Shields recalled phoning her good friend and safety head Gavin de Becker, who advised her: “That’s rape.”
She replied “I’m not willing to believe that,” and has not spoken of the incident publicly till now.
The revelation — which echoes #MeToo revelations by outstanding and lesser-known Hollywood actresses in recent times — is considered one of a number of surprising moments within the movie, which might be launched on the Hulu streaming platform in two components.
Part one examines the extreme sexualization Shields skilled as a younger lady, together with a provocative nude photoshoot at age 10, and her look as an little one prostitute within the movie “Pretty Baby” at age 11.
The documentary reveals a younger Shields being requested lascivious questions by a lot older male chat present hosts about her roles in films comparable to “The Blue Lagoon” and “Endless Love,” and the collection of controversial Calvin Klein denims commercials she starred in.
After experiencing international fame as a teen, Shields attended college at Princeton, and initially struggled to search out performing roles once more after she graduated — resulting in the assembly together with her alleged rapist.
‘PERSEVERANCE’
“My personal message is perseverance, and not allowing yourself to become a victim to a society or an industry,” she advised AFP forward of the movie’s premiere on the pageant in Utah.
“I’m proud of how I kept learning, kept growing, kept striving and kept loving what I do,” Shields stated.
The film, which earned Shields a standing ovation at Sundance, additionally chronicles the media’s later obsession together with her virginity, her mom’s alcoholism, and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi.
It options a number of of Shields’ well-known pals together with Lionel Richie, Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore.
Co-founded by Robert Redford, Sundance is a key launching pad for impartial films and documentaries.
Also on Thursday was the premiere of “Justice,” a shock late addition to the pageant line-up, which explores the sexual misconduct allegations towards Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The first documentary from “The Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman, it options testimony from Deborah Ramirez, considered one of Kavanaugh’s accusers and a former Yale classmate.
It additionally contains audio of one other classmate, who stated he noticed Kavanaugh expose himself to a special, “extremely drunk” girl pupil at one other celebration, however whose account was solely reported in U.S. media months after Kavanaugh’s polarizing 2018 Senate affirmation listening to.
The girl, who is just not named, has stated she doesn’t keep in mind the incident.
“This was the kind of movie where people are terrified” to talk out, Liman stated.
Kavanaugh has categorically denied participating in sexual misconduct.
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival is the primary to be held in-person for 3 years, as latest editions have been compelled on-line by Covid. It runs till January 29.
