In the brand-new documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which had its Sundance film festival premiere on Friday, Brooke Shields disclosed that she had been sexually assaulted as a young Hollywood actress.
The previous supermodel refused to identify the man who attacked her, but claimed to have met him not long after graduating from college, thinking they were meeting for business to explore casting her in a new film.
Insisting that he’d call her a taxi from his room, he drove her back to his hotel. She claimed that he rather vanished into the restroom before emerging nude and attacking her.
Shields said in the documentary, “I didn’t fight that much… I just simply froze.
I believed that my single no ought to have been sufficient. I only remember thinking, Stay alive and get out.
Shields recalled calling her friend and security chief Gavin de Becker after the event, and he informed her: That’s rape.
She said, I’m not inclined to believe that, and up until now, she has kept quiet about the incident.
The disclosure, which is one of several shocking moments in the movie, which will be aired on the Hulu streaming site in two parts, is similar to Me Too confessions made by well-known and lesser-known Hollywood actresses in recent years.
Shields underwent extensive sexual objectification as a young child, which included a provocative nude photo shoot at age 10 and her role as a child prostitute in the movie Pretty Baby at age 11.
The documentary depicts a teenage Shields being grilled about her parts in films like The Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, as well as the series of contentious Calvin Klein jeans commercials she appeared in, by much older male talk show presenters.
Shields attended Princeton University and initially struggled to secure acting opportunities when she graduated, which led to the encounter with her accused rapist. Shields had already experienced international renown as a youngster.
In addition to chronicling her mother’s alcoholism, her first marriage to tennis player Andre Agassi, and the media’s later fixation with her virginity, the film garnered Shields a standing ovation when it premiered at Sundance.
It includes a number of Shields’ well-known pals, such as Laura Linney, Drew Barrymore, and Lionel Richie.
Robert Redford helped co-found Sundance, which serves as a significant incubator for independent films and documentaries.
The festival’s unexpected late addition, Justice, which examines the allegations of sexual misconduct toward Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, had its premiere on Thursday as well.
‘The Bourne Identity’ filmmaker Doug Liman’s new documentary incorporates evidence from Kavanaugh complainant and former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez.
It also contains audio of a different classmate who claimed to have witnessed Kavanaugh making out with another, extremely inebriated female student at a different party. However, this classmate’s account wasn’t published in US media until months after Kavanaugh’s divisive 2018 Senate confirmation hearing.
The unnamed woman has stated that she does not recall the encounter.
According to Liman, This was the kind of movie where people are scared” to express themselves.
Kavanaugh has vehemently refuted any sexual misconduct.
