“I still, to this day, dream of being in an ‘A’ movie again.

I was jealous, he said on Tuesdays episode of theBehind the Velvet Ropepodcast.

Do you know what I mean?

Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields in ‘The Blue Lagoon’

Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields in ‘Blue Lagoon’.Everett Collection

But that’s not his only career goal.

Atkins also explained that there are two boxes that I still have to tick in this business.

I wanna make my own picture.

And so I have some projects that I’m working on now.

And then one just came up and the other thing is I want [to] direct one.

But your reaction was, ‘Ugh, oh God.'”

“I was like, ‘Oh God, why do I have to look at this?'”