Decider Dec 21 22
Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins Reflect on Underage Nudity in ‘Blue Lagoon’: “Never Again Will a Movie Be Made Like That”
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Inside the Making of the 1980 Blue LagoonBrooke Shields and Christopher Atkins recall filming challenges and controversies over 40 years after the movie's release.
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- Blue Lagoon tells the story of two cousins stranded on an island who grow into adulthood together.
- Brooke Shields was only 14 during filming and noted that such a movie would not be permitted today.
- The production involved many nude scenes and animal harm, which the actors found awkward and troubling.
- Producers pushed for an off-screen romance between Shields and Atkins, though they never dated in reality.
Never again will a movie be made like that. It wouldn’t be allowed.— Brooke Shields on the Now What? podcast discussing the filming of The Blue Lagoon.
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