yes! right here.

right there. a softer focus. brooke, so many of the interviews i've read i was the original influencer. yeah, that's it. ..in a soap ad. how does that feel? i mean, in this day and age where everybody is hyper—focused on everything all the time, it's, but for it to have been the focal point for almost 60 years, it's odd. but, you know, it...

i wasn't exactly ambitious then. "or was it just happenstance? " and, you know, she kept it up. of that period and through your teenage years, around who was you, who was the kid brooke shields, the teenager? were you able to ever be just

brooke shields the teenager? it was a theme, um, that my mom really perpetuated. or certification that would allow me to just graduate but then also made by me as i got older, perpetuated me whenever we travelled, instead of being the only

and so there was this little, um... we had this, like, we can make fun of people and giggle that was a kid in a sea of uncaring adults. you know, for all you... to retain a sense of... i think there were many factors that contributed.

had very strong standards for their own selves and their children. and, um... ..and the drugs and the alcohol and all these things... and it did... even if i didn't... and then i started at a young age... you know, i mean, let's say high school, really. but the understanding of human behaviour and what's reality and what isn't reality,

what you have control over, like the way it looks and it may... or, i don't know, something in mejust thought, "oh, no. i'm not going to lose." yeah. where you have.,even "i'm going to control this situation "to the degree that ican." right. right? or whether it was being on set. were you conscious of kind of thinking, "right, i'm going to do it"? i think i developed other things that fall into that category of, um, survival.

i was very neat. i was very organised. refolded my sweaters or there was... and that's. .. one of the many. it can go either way. you know, you can say, "i'm in control "and therefore nobody can tell me what to do." or, "no—one can tell me i can't, you know, "shave my head and go..." what can i control?" and then as i got older, control became something less, um, worrisome, less toxic,

less of a reaction. i can control changing that. were film sets nice places for you as a kid? you talk about control? and you can... i have every single call sheet i've ever gotten, from pretty baby on. you know what the routine is. and if you do yourjob well enough, they like you and they you know, not with

candy or anything. and then you get another call sheet. they don't kick you off, so... to have contests to see... that was a chalkboard, and i would get to do the clapboard and... like family? absolutely, like a family. a week to get over. because you don't understand at a young age how you can be so close, and then most of those people, i never saw again.

it's a common goal. job is important. for the most part my mom was safe... right. ..which was a big deal because she was either oh, yeah. don't get me wrong. i was going to say... she drank till the two minutes before she died. with your mother and then getting there, and there's for a child of an alcoholic? yeah. that's an elixir. and...

it�*s safetyand it... . .. and then they had to take care of her, you know, right. so it was kind of a win—win, you know? and the irony is that the movie sets were the sense of safety and normalcy, which is rare. it feels to me like another control thing, of separating yourself from the role, where the camera would stop i don't know. you'd do that. as a what? um, ithink...

so i don't think i ever really looked at what i did as a craft. i was never nurtured as an actress. i didn't know that you could research or i had to show up and stand in my light on a spot and say there was no kind of real connection. and i think that i didn't feel totally, um... people, which you can, you know, there would be it was in a stunt or a...

because what if? you know, what if...? what if my mom wasn't there? and you... or, like, there's the weird thing that happens. and so i thought, "ok, you cannot let these characters "be your real life." like, i think that there wasjust, like, i didn't know if i was going to be safe in it, but if i could the grips and gaffers, 7 7 ,,

i have, yet another one. tell me about this one. brooke laughs. um... when i was younger, my mom and i would talk about, you know, the james deans and the marilyn monroes i'm not comparing myself to any of those people, but when you are someone in the public eye and your persona, your look, your whatever, is a focal point, if that person dies looking like that person, the one we knew and fell in love with, that we um...

imprinted on at a young age, a youthful face, just regularly getting older is almost viewed as a disappointment. i mean, marilyn monroe is a perfect example. like, you miss her. up to and thought of, or whatever it is. but from a person who's that person, you really have to do a lot of work on yourself internally, to be ok with not also being disappointed with yourself. because you...

it was a shock to me the first time i saw something was in the film. iwas like... he was like, "aw." definitely. i think you go to europe or... and reverence for beauty, mature beauty. we don't... ithink... um, but it goes beyond youth—obsessed. you know, it's, um...

when they were so young. i think i got lucky in the fact that somewhere along the line, mm—hm. not myself, because i avoided looking in the mirror and i couldn't see what other people saw. i didn't want to get to know that too much. um...

all of those things that sort of add to you as a human being, of a decade", which is ridiculous in and of itself... and i was a pretty face, but, you know, really? but i nurtured other things always as a response to it not in writing the book, have you also... and maybe just in the process of growing older — and you and i have actually talked about this for the book to 10, 20, 30 years ago? there's so many upsides. and i think that there's

a freedom to it. and there's so many different factors that when you delve life, in a way, that is focused on just us. not our biological clock, not societal pressures, you know, so there's just like forward, ooh! you get to know why you're a good friend, i would have never said that in my younger days.

like, it's all these things and you sort ofjust... you don't wake up and mind your sags and everything, "i healed from pretty crazy stuff, "i had humans in me so there's this... i walked... iwasin... i was at a premiere the other night for broadway and, like,

not longevity or lasting power, which is what i always um, and i...i didn't even own my intellect. like, ijust... they were, you know... says the woman who went to princeton. around, not with any type of arrogance or anything knew most of them or

had met them before. who was with me, i said, "i think i finally intimidated by any of these people in these rooms. i don't have to be... have never been jealous. scared that i'm not good enough. it's not even envy. and i can be good enough. i'm as good as whatever i used to hold up on a pedestal. and that's just my trajectory, but... you don't feel like a fraud any more.

and a varied career, like, it's pretty great. brooke shields, thank you very much. thank you. that was really nice. hello. large hail around, as well.

but there'll be some chilly nights for the next few nights, with a risk of some frost and some mist and fog patches around, too. chilly start to thursday across the northern half of the uk, parts of scotland. but for most of us, lots of blue sky the coast of norfolk, i think. not particularly warm, but it is just pushing extensive first thing. it'll be a chilly start to the day, so temperatures colder than that in the more rural spots. so, some frost, some fog to get

rid of, high pressure right across the uk on friday. the sunshine has got a little bit more strength to it this time of year on the final day of winter on friday — through the course of friday morning. so it'll brighten up through the day, 1—2 places could keep some fogginess right into the afternoon, i think. but it should feel pleasant enough with those sunny spells. now, into saturday, a weather front moves in from the northwest. and fog, but that should clear away, so some sunny spells. figures across the board. here's the high pressure that sticks with us into the second half of the weekend, as well. in from the northwest, bringing a cloudier,

windier sort of day across the northern isles. could be a little bit of rain in the far northwest. for most of us, a similar day again — dry and settled, morning mist and fog clearing away. around 10—11 celsius. bye.

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