There was definitely no scarcity of nudity within the 1980 cult basic Blue Lagoon — and greater than 40 years after its launch, stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins have reunited to trade tales about their “awkward” time filming the difference of the controversial novel.
Blue Lagoon follows two cousins who’re marooned on an island as kids as they develop into maturity and finally fall in love. In the newest episode of her Now What? podcast, Shields, who was solely 14 on the time the film was filmed, mentioned, “Never again will a movie be made like that,” earlier than including, “It wouldn’t be allowed.”
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 on the time, recalled, “I was chafed up to no end.”
He later famous, “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 even remembered how her hair was taped all the way down to her physique 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 bare scenes, Shields, who mentioned she had by no means “really kissed anybody by that age” additionally identified how “desperately” everybody wished the actors thus far off-camera.
“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 by no means really dated in actual life, Atkins, who reiterated that he was 18 on the time whereas Shields was solely 14, had nothing however reward 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 mentioned. “I think it was a lot of that innocence that came off in the film that made it work even more.”
This story initially appeared on Decider and is republished right here with permission.
