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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 438011" data-attributes="member: 27">Regarding The Blue Lagoon, the producers originally had lined up Willie Aames (then a teen heart-throb from Eight Is Enough) to play the role Chris Atkins ultimately played.  Lori Loughlin (then an unknown teen model) was set to play the Brooke Shields role.  Loughlin's mother then found out how much nudity would be required for her daughter and yanked her out of the project.  Apparently Shields's mother was much less concerned about the effect such work would have on her daughter's career.  So they recast both characters to assure the right chemistry.  Loughlin went on to be cast as Jody on The Edge of Night and three years later Aames ended up opposite Loughlin on the same show playing a villain who spent his entire run trying to get her into bed.  Small world, indeed.</blockquote>