Brooke Shields on Owning Her Legacy and You're Killing Me

Brooke Shields isn't just the star of Acorn TV's new cozy mystery series You're Killing Me. She's the engine behind it. As both lead actress and executive producer, Shields plays Allie, a bestselling novelist in a quaint New England town who teams up with a young writer and podcaster to solve murders in their community. "I had something to say about everything," she tells Newsweek, from casting and dialog to the DP fighting for closeups on an emotional scene. The show became a hit and was renewed for a second season. It also arrives at a pivotal moment in Shields' public life. Since the 2023 documentary Pretty Baby reframed the conversation around her early career and the sexualization of young women in Hollywood, she's operated with a new confidence. "My proactivity has been met with much more opportunity," she says. "It's amazing what happens if you just ask for it."See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.