Why Brooke Shields Quit Her Hallmark Movie Contract After Making 3 Films
Years ago, Brooke Shields signed a massive contract with Hallmark to star in their franchise, Flower Shop Mysteries, but only three films in the series were made.
The now 59-year-old actress had signed a 16-film deal with Hallmark, but realized she “had to renegotiate.”
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“I’d completed only three when I realized I had to renegotiate. I’d been hired, I was told, to help change the face of the network. They wanted me to be funny and bring more comedy to their offerings, but as filming progressed on each of the Flower Shop Mysteries — the franchise I was hired to headline — all the humor had evaporated,” she wrote in her new book “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.” Those three movies all premiered in 2016: Mum’s the Word: A Flower Shop Mystery, Flower Shop Mystery: Snipped in the Bud, and Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted.
“Not everything is for everyone, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Hallmark Channel — God knows it has a huge fan base — but it was not the future I wanted for my career. I’m never against hard work, but I am now a believer in only saying yes to work that serves me,” she continued.
She added, “I simply could not do ten more films that were not what I was promised and felt completely wrong for me. So I quit. I definitely surprised some people, and in plenty of ways I surprised myself. I certainly would never have done that in my 20s.”
Despite quitting her contract, she did go on to star in the 2021 Hallmark holiday movie, A Castle for Christmas.
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