Brooke Shields dishes on her most infamous movie, Blue Lagoon

“Never again will a movie be made like that,” says Brooke Shields of the controversial film about lovestruck cousins she made when she was just 14.

There was certainly no shortage of nudity in the 1980 cult classic Blue Lagoon — and more than 40 years after its release, stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins have reunited to exchange stories about their “awkward” time filming the adaptation of the controversial novel.

Blue Lagoon follows two cousins who are marooned on an island as children as they grow into adulthood and eventually fall in love. In the latest episode of her Now What? podcast, Shields, who was only 14 at the time the movie was filmed, said, “Never again will a movie be made like that,” before adding, “It wouldn’t be allowed.”

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Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon: “Never again will a movie be made like that.”

She continued, “Animals were hurt in the movie. We were spearing fish and all kinds of crazy things. Children are naked running down a beach,” to which Atkins, who was 18 at the time, recalled, “I was chafed up to no end.”

He later noted, “There were scenes where I was butt naked with you, if you remember, sliding down that slide and things like that. And that was a little awkward, but it was kind of funny for me because at this point in time I would just do it.”

Shields was just 14 when the movie was made.

The star says she’d never kissed anyone before making the movie. Picture: Getty

Shields even remembered how her hair was taped down to her body to “cover the boobs.” However, the actress joked, “I don’t know what I was trying to cover. Remember the bumpy pads? They would stick these little flesh-coloured things to my nipple because nipple is where they drew the line, evidently, with this movie.”

Aside from the abundance of naked scenes, Shields, who said she had never “really kissed anybody by that age” also pointed out how “desperately” everyone wanted the actors to date off-camera.

The co-stars have revealed how everyone was “desperate” for them to start dating each other.

“What I remember, too, is that they wanted us so desperately to fall in love with each other,” she revealed. “It also struck me, too, because I remember thinking, ‘Hey, let’s just get to know each other first rather than trying to make us fall in love with each other and force the situation.’ And I didn’t react well to being forced into feeling anything. I wanted to sort of be left a little bit to my own.”

While the duo never actually dated in real life, Atkins, who reiterated that he was 18 at the time while Shields was only 14, had nothing but praise for his former co-star.

“The chemistry between us was just amazing. There were a lot of great, great moments that went on there,” he said. “I think it was a lot of that innocence that came off in the film that made it work even more.”

This story originally appeared on Decider and is republished here with permission.

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