“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 ‘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?'”