Brooke Shields is ignoring 'The Blue Lagoon' director's calls after she accused him of wanting 'to sell my sexual awakening' in new documentary

• Brooke Shields has said that Randal Kleiser, who directed "The Blue Lagoon," has reached out to her.
• She said she let his call go to voicemail as she's not interested in "bringing any of it back up again."

Brooke Shields has said that the director of "The Blue Lagoon" has tried to reach out to her following the release of her new Hulu documentary, in which she has accused him of wanting "to sell my sexual awakening."

In a teaser clip from Tuesday's episode of "The Drew Barrymore Show," the actor and model said she's let Randal Kleiser's calls go straight to voicemail as she's not interested in "bringing any of it back up again."

"Now that the documentary is out, have any of the male directors reached out to you, like Louis Malle and Franco Zeffirelli?" Barrymore asked, referring to the filmmakers behind two of Shields' earliest roles, "Pretty Baby" and "Endless Love."

Shields replied that both had died, but said that Kleiser, the director behind the coming-of-age story, was still alive and had tried to make contact with her.

She said: "I saw his name on my phone, and I was like, 'What do I do?' And I let it go to voicemail because I was like, 'I want to see what the tone is.'"

"He wants to chat. I don't know about what," Shields said of the "Grease" director.

However, Shields indicated that she might not return to call as "I don't feel like bringing any of it back up again."

Speaking generally about Kleiser, Malle, and Zeffirelli, whose films all depicted an underage Shields as an object of sexual desire, she said: "It was about, you know, these males needing me to be in a certain category to serve their story."

"It never was about me, it was never protective of me. It was fun and loving at times, but I was just there," she continued. "I was a pawn, I was a piece, I was a commodity."

A representative for Kleiser did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Although she was just 15 years old while shooting "The Blue Lagoon," Shields was no stranger to being sexualized, having posed nude in a Playboy publication at age 10 and played a prostitute in "Pretty Baby" at 11.

In "Blue Lagoon," the actor plays the teenage version of a girl who, along with her male cousin (played by an 18-year-old Christopher Atkins), has been marooned since infancy on an idyllic tropical island. As the film unfolds, the two go through puberty together and begin to feel sexual desire for each other, before eventually falling in love and having a baby.

Speaking in "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields," which was released on April 3, the model and actor said that while she enjoyed the experience of filming the 1980 film in Fiji, she was left feeling exploited by Kleiner.

She said that Kleiner tried to market the movie around her existing sexualized image by making it appear she was experiencing a sexual awakening at the same time as the character she portrayed.

The documentary quoted Kleiser as telling a newspaper: "It's real, she's going from a child to a woman during the filming."

"They wanted to make it a reality show," Shields said in a to-camera interview while discussing the making of the movie. "They wanted to sell my actual sexual awakening."

She explained: "The irony was, I wasn't in touch with any of my own sexuality."

Shields said that being raised Catholic, sex wasn't something she discussed with her parents, former model Teri Shields and Revlon executive Frank Shields, who divorced when she was just 5 months old.