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If my parents turned down this role for me, I'd be pissed as an adult.


This is the role that shot Brooke Shields into stardom, no? Think about it. As an adult, she's completely free. She's got the freedom only millions of dollars can give you. She has no 9-5 job. She can do whatever she wants whenever she wants. She never has to worry about paying for anything.

I'd gladly have nudes of me when I was 12 out there in exchange for that. She was just nude. This film wasn't a documentary. She wasn't really being raped or used as a sex slave. That was pretend. All she had to do was show her natural body, and now is living the high life.

Yeah, if my parents screwed that chance up for me, I'd never talk to them again.

We can't go back, we must always go forward.

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I think Blue Lagoon followed by Calvin Klein "shot her to stardom". This was just a blah movie, even back then

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