Brooke Shields Reacts To Tasteless Tribute To Her Role In ‘The Blue Lagoon’

Brooke Shields was put into a weird situation while acting as a fill-in host on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”

On Tuesday, Shields introduced actor Eiza González, who was there to promote her new independent horror movie “Ash” on the talk show. Once González sat down to begin her interview with Shields, she immediately fanned out a blue tulle skirt she was wearing over a turtleneck and pants.

“By the way, I wore this for you,” González said. “What does it look like?”

Shields hesitated for a moment, before guessing, “My outfit in ‘Blue Lagoon?’”

“Yes! It’s like a ‘Blue Lagoon’-inspired look for you,” González said.

“Ahhh! really?” Shields responded, a bit surprised. “That was a lot more covered than I was.”

“I couldn’t live up to the hair,” González said. “So I was like, ‘Well, I’ll use fake tulle as hair.’”

“And that hair was … taped to my body, by the way,” Shields shared, to González’s surprise. “Yeah, they had to tape it to my boobs, because if the wind blew, it was like, woo!”

“There wasn’t much! There wasn’t much there,” Shields continued before abruptly changing the subject.

Although Shields acted like a professional towards González on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” when a clip of their interaction made its way onto TikTok, users were a bit perplexed.

“‘I’m dressed as you when you were exploited’ is a choice,” one user said.

“I feel like that’s quite insensitive of her picking that outfit,” another echoed.

“The way I would never bring up blue lagoon to that woman,” said another TIkToker.

“I wore this for yoooou just a lil something that symbolizes your trauma 😜,” joked another.

HuffPost reached out to González for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

The commenters’ bewilderment over González’s “tribute” to Shields makes a whole lot of sense — particularly since Shields has said publicly that she has a complicated relationship to the film. Although Shields was lauded for her beauty in 1980′s “The Blue Lagoon,” she starred in it when she was only 14 years old opposite a then-18-year-old Christopher Atkins. In the shipwreck film, the pair play cousins-turned-lovers who consummate their relationship on an island in the South Pacific. The film highly sexualizes both actors by filming them nude, with an underage Shields spending a good chunk of the film with just her hair covering her breasts.

In Shields’ 2023 Hulu documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” the actor reflected on working on “Blue Lagoon” and how she felt the movie’s director, Randal Kleiser, exploited her by promoting the movie as Shields, rather than her character, “going from a child to a woman during the filming.”

“They wanted to sell my actual sexual awakening,” Shields said in her documentary about the marketing behind “Blue Lagoon.”

“The irony was, I wasn’t in touch with any of my own sexuality,” she said.