Director Lana Wilson talks to Jezebel about carefully capturing the icon and incorporating her feedback in Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields on Hulu.
In the doc, you use a lot of the experts to synthesize and analyze, as one often does when directing a documentary. But I wonder, how did you find Brooke as a subject? What did you think of her ability to analyze the culture, to step outside of it?I think it changed over time, really, because Brooke started acting when she was a child and grew up inside of it. I think what’s really cool about Brooke is that she is constantly learning, and really loves learning and challenging herself.
“what I saw even during that dinner scene was Brooke’s willingness to be challenged by her own daughters and to learn something at that moment, but also to not give up her own perspective and experience.”It can be a bit of a balancing act to ask tough questions while keeping a subject engaged. Did you feel at all limited?
Maybe it would have been different with someone else. I think that there’s two things. One is that Brooke herself is just completely game. Nothing’s off limits. I mean, I kind of knew that from reading her books. This, I think, goes further than her books in a lot of ways. You know, when I first met her, our conversation was very intense and about a lot of difficult topics, almost immediately. I could see that she was really ready to talk about all this stuff. So part of it is just her courage.
to think about it as an experience I’m giving someone and they have to be okay at the end of it, as well as thinking of what I want and need to make this documentary. I would really carefully shape the whole day. I would think of it as Brooke relaxes for an hour or two and just says whatever is top of mind. We get through her story or narrative, and then we can go into the harder and the deeper stuff.
Lana Wilson and Brooke Shields at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields on January 20, 2023
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