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When producers (and close friends of Shields’s) Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos approached Shields about the Snoopy I will drink coffee here or there I will drink coffee everywhere shirt moreover I love this film, the actor says, “My ego had to adjust, because it wasn’t a documentary about all my wonderful work. I had to put on my more intellectual brain and say, ‘This is actually going to be better, because it’s about something you are the conduit to and the different types of conversations that come from that.’” In fact, she says, it reminded her of her thesis at Princeton, “The Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle, Pretty Baby and Lacombe, Lucien” (1987), comparing the themes of lost innocence in two of my father’s films. And while the title of Wilson’s film is lifted from Pretty Baby, some version of Shields’s thesis title could just as easily apply. When I told Vogue’s deputy editor that I would be writing this piece, his eyebrows shot up to the 65th floor of 1 World Trade Center. Was it appropriate for me to cover a documentary that takes my father and the misogynist industrial complex of the late ’70s and early ’80s to task? Maybe not, but I remembered meeting Shields at a movie premiere years ago, when I was party reporting, and her telling me about her college thesis and how much she loved my father. When I checked in with her team more recently, they confirmed that she was looking forward to doing the interview with me. So, I felt like conflict had been averted. What I did not anticipate was how complicated it would be to watch Pretty Baby again, and learn about the on-set conditions that my father oversaw. I revisited the film on a recent Saturday night with my mother, who trends more toward the Catherine Deneuve end of the “woke” spectrum, and even she audibly drew breath at certain shots of an 11 year-old Shields languorously nude, or having her virginity auctioned off to the highest bidder. I still love the film, but it seems indisputable that Shields was too young to be put in such a situation.
Shields insists that she did not feel uncomfortable with the Snoopy I will drink coffee here or there I will drink coffee everywhere shirt moreover I love this sexual content in Pretty Baby. Yet the film’s subject matter—specifically, the scene in which Shields’s Violet poses nude for her photographer husband (Keith Carradine), based on the real-life E.J. Bellocq—ignited the culture wars in 1978 when the film came out. It promptly received an R rating in the United States, an X rating in the United Kingdom, and was outright banned in Canada, with the press dubbing it “kiddie porn” and Shields, the “next Lolita.” According to Shields, however, it was the punishing work conditions that made the shoot problematic—including 12-to-15-hour days; a dedication to realism that forced her to wear antique shoes that lacerated her feet; and co-star Susan Sarandon maintaining that a slap scene could not be faked, and whacking Shields across the face for nine consecutive takes. These transgressions would have also fallen under the director’s purview, yet it was Teri Shields who became the villain of the press. This narrative persisted: the maneuvering, aggressive stage mom putting her daughter at risk instead of the unimpeachable male auteur. Franco Zeffirelli, who cast Shields in his 1981 film Endless Love, was dissatisfied with the then-15-year-old’s expression during an orgasm scene, so while filming he twisted her toe hard enough to make her cry out. In Fiji, during the shoot for The Blue Lagoon, director Randal Kleiser tried to engineer a real relationship between Shields and her 18-year-old co-star, Christopher Atkins. Still, Teri was blamed, and Shields defended her—but her position has evolved over time.
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