Laura Linney And Brooke Shields Friendship Over The Years
Actress Laura Linney appeared in her friend Brooke's documentary Pretty Baby. The documentary was released on January 20, 2023, on Hulu.
Pretty Baby is a film directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Lana Wilson. The film stars Drew Barrymore, Gregory Butler, Isobel Coleman, Lyda Ely, Meenakshi Durham and Gavin de Becker.
The makers have also used archive footage of Tom Hanks, Ernie Anastos, Rona Barrett, Tom Brokaw, Arsenio Hall, Harrison Ford, and Ava Gardner.
Actors like Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, James Charles, and Spencer Christian footage were also used in filmmaking.
The documentary has depicted the abuse and sexualization of child actors in the film fraternity. It is based on the life story of actress Brooke Shields who endured objectification from a young age.
She was twelve when the film of the same name, Pretty Baby released in 1978. Her role in the film demanded to be an adult worker as her character was born in a brothel to a courtesan.
Her character Violet was auctioned in the film in the very brothel she called home. She was sold for $400, abused by her mother, and married to a child predator.
As mentioned above, her mother, Teri, was a self-possessed alcoholic stage mom who wanted to make a star out of her daughter at any cost.
Teri was neglectful and forced Brooke into working even as a toddler. Unwantedly, Brooke was exposed to child sexualization before she even knew what the ordeal would bring in the future.
The Princeton University alum Brooke has been friends with Ozark star Linney from early childhood. Linney talked about their childhood and shared Brooke's circumstances at home.
Linney lived her friend's story from the inside. She knew about her abusive mother and the opportunist men who took her provocative nude photographs before she was 10.
It made true sense when the documentary had an inside version of stories corroborated by a best friend.
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