Brooke Shields accuses Franco Zeffirelli of injuring her to get THAT 'ecstasy face' in 'Endless Love'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Brooke Shields has blasted her ‘Endless Love’ director Franco Zeffirelli, with whom she worked at the age of 15. The 57-year-old has accused the late filmmaker, who was also a Senator of Italy, of breaking her toe so that she could make an “ecstasy face,” creating believable sexual scenes in the movie.
Shields has alleged in her new documentary, ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’, that Zeffirelli was untrustworthy and his inappropriate actions resulted in her “disassociating” from others on the set, The Daily Mail reported. The actress claimed, “The physicality and the exploration of sexuality felt really dangerous to me. I didn't trust the director to create a safe environment for me.”
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‘I didn't want to appear stupid or untalented’
Recalling a particular moment from the filming of the 1981 movie, ‘The Boy Who Cried Werewolf’ star shared that when she was giving a shot for a scene where her character had first-time sex with Martin Hewitt’s character David, Zeffirelli shockingly hurt her toe. She said, “Zeffirelli kept grabbing my toe and, like, twisting it so that I had a look of… I guess ecstasy? But it was more angst than anything because he was hurting me.”
Shields also stated, “His thing was 'the look on your face it has to be ecstasy’. But it was more angst than anything because he was hurting me. I thought of myself as just the sort of the workhorse. It was transactional,” before adding, “I didn't want to appear stupid or untalented, so I just disassociated. You instantly become a vapor of yourself around something that's happening to you.”
‘I saw what I did not want to become’
Besides, in the two-part documentary, which premiered on Hulu on April 3, Shields revealed, as reported by USA Today, “I was in an industry that shoots you to fame and gives you money and exposure, and you hear stories of so many young people who fall prey to addiction and lose their way. It was miraculous to me that I didn't fall into those traps. But it was because I was caring for an alcoholic, and I saw what I did not want to become.”
The mother-of-two also asserted that though times have changed, now that people are more aware of what they are putting on social media, she finds it “scarier than what I felt when I was a child”. She added, “While we may have made progress as a culture in the sense that the messaging from girls today is 'I'm deciding what I put out there' in those videos, there is frankly a whole other level of sexualization that to me looks scarier than what I felt when I was a child. I was so naive about my sexuality. But I do feel these young girls are overly sexualizing themselves.”
Not just that, but Shields is quite protective of her daughters. When her secondborn, Grier Hammond Henchy, wanted to do runway modeling, she reportedly did not appreciate it. But eventually, she agreed, as she mentioned, “I was adamantly against it for years. But I realized she was passionate, and if I'm the mother I'm professing to be, someone who listens, I had to start saying, 'OK what can I do to help her?' And I could help with connections to people I trusted.”