After capturing the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana, deconstructing one other pop icon in Brooke Shields was an natural segue for filmmaker Lana Wilson. The director is up for a Primetime Emmy nomination in Excellent Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program for the Hulu/ABC Information docuseries Fairly Child: Brooke Shields.
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Wilson’s agent first introduced the chance of a Brooke Shields doc to her consideration after the idea was within the works through Alexandra Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos, who’ve a manufacturing deal at ABC Information. Wilson tells us why the time was lastly prime for Shields to inform all.
Shields proved a documentarian’s dream topic, not holding again from her roller-coaster journey excessive of being a Eighties starlet in such dicey motion pictures equivalent to Fairly Child, The Blue Lagoon and Infinite Love to tabloid headlines as Andre Agassi’s spouse and Michael Jackson’s Grammys date. Wilson wished to ensure Shields could be “actually sport for an outsider’s perspective on them….I might see she was sport.”
Key for Wilson was exhibiting Shields and what she represented at totally different deadlines as a cultural icon.
“It was onerous for her to develop up as a toddler with the image Brooke Shields already being recognized in these extremely loaded methods: sexualized, exploited little one star; later virginity, purity image. She was a persona and an emblem earlier than she was a human and I like the thought of incorporating that rigidity into the movie,” Wilson mentioned.
Nevertheless, above all, it was essential to zero in on Shields’ supervisor mother Teri Shields, who not solely battled alcoholism however went toe-to-toe with filmmakers themselves.
Wilson informed Shields, “‘I feel your mother deserves a posh portrayal as a result of there was a deep love there, however she additionally prompted you an enormous quantity of ache. I felt like we needed to discuss all of it.”
“Teri Shields was so vilified within the media,” Wilson tells Crew Name. “[Brooke’s] mother was held solely accountable for all of the sexual content material as if all of the individuals who had been making the movies had nothing to do with it.”
Wilson shares with us how the docuseries captures Shields’ personal evolution as mom. We additionally speak with Wilson about her booming profession as a documentary filmmaker, going again to her roots together with her first massive hit on the Sundance Movie Pageant within the 2013 abortion documentary After Tiller.
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