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By H. Alan Scott
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Brooke Shields stopped by The Parting Shot podcast and honestly, she did not waste words. On her new Acorn TV hit cozy mystery You’re Killing Me, she said the goal was respecting the audience. “Just because it’s light, doesn’t mean it has to be thin or without layers,” she said. As an executive producer, she fought for every scene. “I had something to say about everything, and it was appreciated, in the casting, the writing, the wardrobe.” The payoff? A recently renewed second season, and Shields knows why. “I know how these things work. There’s real power in how we present this to the press. I am willing to work my ass off for you, but I have to know you’re going to be in support.”
“I used to be afraid of being big,” she said of her career. “Don’t make yourself smaller, don’t be too much, you know? And I don’t feel that way anymore.” She credits the 2023 Pretty Baby documentary with the shift. “I make phone calls to the bosses now, and I say, ‘Look, this is what’s happening in this production, and it’s not right and it needs to change.’” Decades into the business, Shields said she finally trusts her own value. “I’ve never been a woman-hear-me-roar type. It’s been more, I am a woman, hear me more.”
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