Lana Wilson‘s ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ explores Shields’s meteoric childhood fame—and the controversial film roles and ad campaigns that followed.
’s documentary its title, and presents a question that the film finds much more difficult to answer than Shields’s daughters do. How do we grapple now with the fame Shields achieved as a child, filming a kissing scene with a grown man before she’d had a first kiss of her own, and shooting 1980’smostly in the nude? And maybe more importantly, how does Shields herself grapple with it?Little Gold Men
podcast, “was someone going from being an object to being a human being.” The expansive film, which will debut in two parts on Hulu on April 3, devotes its first hour to Shields’s childhood fame, which made her a cultural monolith in a way that’s almost impossible to understand now. And though Shields now acknowledges the problems with the way she was presented onscreen, she is consistent throughout the documentary about how positive her on-set experiences were.
Wilson’s film matches Shields’s refusal to condemn this early work, or to rest easy knowing that something likewouldn’t be made today. Watching Shields’s talk show appearances alongside her mother, Wilson says, “I saw this little girl basically on the hot seat being grilled by these talk show hosts who would first praise her for her beauty and her sensuality and her maturity, but then also would criticize her for being an exhibitionist…I thought, This is a situation that a lot of women and girls still have to navigate, and often privately. But here’s Brooke Shields at age 12, having to deal with all this publicly. I just had this moment of feeling like this is incredibly contemporary.
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