Brooke Shields was put right into a bizarre scenario whereas performing as a fill-in host on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
On Tuesday, Shields launched actor Eiza González, who was there to advertise her new impartial horror film “Ash” on the speak present. As soon as González sat down to start her interview with Shields, she instantly fanned out a blue tulle skirt she was carrying over a turtleneck and pants.
“By the way, I wore this for you,” González mentioned. “What does it look like?”
Shields hesitated for a second, earlier than guessing, “My outfit in ‘Blue Lagoon?’”
“Yes! It’s like a ‘Blue Lagoon’-inspired look for you,” González mentioned.
“Ahhh! really?” Shields responded, a bit stunned. “That was a lot more covered than I was.”
“I couldn’t live up to the hair,” González mentioned. “So I was like, ‘Well, I’ll use fake tulle as hair.’”
“And that hair was … taped to my body, by the way,” Shields shared, to González’s shock. “Yeah, they had to tape it to my boobs, because if the wind blew, it was like, woo!”
“There wasn’t much! There wasn’t much there,” Shields continued earlier than abruptly altering the topic.
Though Shields acted like knowledgeable in the direction of González on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” when a clip of their interplay made its manner onto TikTok, customers have been a bit perplexed.
“‘I’m dressed as you when you were exploited’ is a choice,” one person mentioned.
“I feel like that’s quite insensitive of her picking that outfit,” one other echoed.
“The way I would never bring up blue lagoon to that woman,” mentioned one other TIkToker.
“I wore this for yoooou just a lil something that symbolizes your trauma 😜,” joked one other.
HuffPost reached out to González for remark however didn’t obtain a right away response.
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The commenters’ bewilderment over González’s “tribute” to Shields makes a complete lot of sense — notably since Shields has mentioned publicly that she has an advanced relationship to the movie. Though Shields was lauded for her magnificence in 1980′s “The Blue Lagoon,” she starred in it when she was solely 14 years outdated reverse a then-18-year-old Christopher Atkins. Within the shipwreck movie, the pair play cousins-turned-lovers who consummate their relationship on an island within the South Pacific. The movie extremely sexualizes each actors by filming them nude, with an underage Shields spending a superb chunk of the movie with simply her hair overlaying her breasts.
In Shields’ 2023 Hulu documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” the actor mirrored on engaged on “Blue Lagoon” and the way she felt the film’s director, Randal Kleiser, exploited her by selling the film as Shields, fairly than her character, “going from a child to a woman during the filming.”
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“They wanted to sell my actual sexual awakening,” Shields mentioned in her documentary in regards to the advertising and marketing behind “Blue Lagoon.”
“The irony was, I wasn’t in touch with any of my own sexuality,” she mentioned.
