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Brooke Shields Reflects on Underage Nudity in 'The Blue Lagoon': ‘Never Again’

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—the controversial film from 1980— features a lot of nudity. Now, more than forty years after its release, Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins are reflecting on the at times “awkward” experience making such a racy film at 14 and 18 years old, respectively.

In an episode of her released December 20, Shields said, “Never again will a movie be made like that. It wouldn’t be allowed." "Animals were hurt in the movie," she continued. “We were spearing fish and all kinds of crazy things.

Children are naked running down a beach.” Shields also recalled her hair being taped to her boobs to cover them up. The spicy coming-of-age survival film with more incest than follows two cousins stranded on an island after a shipwreck who fall in love as they reach puberty and early adulthood.

The film was mostly panned by critics, but was a commercial success and one of the highest-grossing films of the year. It even got a sequel in 1991's Return to the Blue Lagoon, starring Mila Jovovich and Brian Krause.

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