Brooke Shields Reacts To Eiza González Blue Lagoon Outfit

This week, Brooke was one of some celebrities to fill in for Kelly on her discuss present within the American Idol star’s current absence. As a visitor host, Brooke spoke to actor Eiza González, and the dialog — whereas typically nicely obtained — featured one awkward second that had viewers stirring in remark sections on-line.

As the 2 sat down, Eiza gestured to her outfit, which consisted of a turtleneck and a blue tulle skirt. “By the way in which, I wore this for you,” she mentioned earlier than asking Brooke, “What does it appear like?”

After barely hesitating, Brooke answered. “My…outfit in Blue Lagoon,” she guessed. Eiza excitedly confirmed, smoothing down her skirt and saying, “Sure! It’s like a Blue Lagoon-inspired search for you.”

“Oh my gosh, that was much more lined than I used to be,” Brooke mentioned as she pointed to Eiza’s outfit. Eiza nodded, saying, “I couldn’t dwell as much as the hair, so I used to be like, ‘Effectively, I’ll use faux tulle as hair.’”

“And that hair was…taped to my physique, by the way in which,” Brooke shared, to Eiza’s shock. “Yeah, they needed to tape it to my boobs, as a result of if the wind blew, it was like, woo!” The 2 laughed as Brooke mentioned, “There wasn’t a lot! There wasn’t a lot there.”

In case you aren’t aware of the 1980 movie The Blue Lagoon, you may not know the many controversies surrounding the film and Brooke’s expertise as its lead star. Along with its controversial plot about two younger cousins falling in love, the movie has been broadly criticized for its extreme nudity — notably as a result of Brooke was solely 14 years outdated on the time.

After all, this movie wasn’t the one controversial expertise in Brooke’s earlier profession. At simply 11 years outdated, she starred within the 1978 movie Fairly Child, enjoying a toddler prostitute. Like The Blue Lagoon, the movie featured a number of nude scenes and was banned in a variety of areas upon launch.

Within the two-part documentary, Brooke talks about her experiences making motion pictures, together with Fairly Child and The Blue Lagoon, and it’s fairly clear that she doesn’t recall all of them that fondly. In mild of this, when Eiza wore her new look on The Kelly Clarkson Present, viewers had lots to say.

“I really feel that’s fairly insensitive of her selecting that outfit,” one particular person wrote. One other added, “’I’m dressed as you once you had been exploited’ is a selection.”

One particular person highlighted Brooke’s perspective, commenting, “I wore this for yoooou only a lil one thing that symbolizes your trauma 😜.” “The best way I might by no means convey up blue lagoon to that girl,” another person mentioned. “You possibly can see it I her eyes the trauma flashback simply came to visit her 😭,” a 3rd particular person added.

Others, nonetheless, had been extra diplomatic towards Eiza. One particular person mentioned, “I do know her intentions had been good, however that in all probability reminded [Brooke] of all her baby appearing drama.” Another person agreed, including, “I might really feel too unhealthy to do it.” One other person prompt that Eiza might merely be unaware, saying, “I by no means knew how she felt about that film, possibly she didn’t both. I don’t imagine she would try this deliberately if she had recognized.”