Brooke Shields rocks youthful look at Call Me Izzy Broadway opening after calling Meghan Markle ‘too precious’

Brooke Shields showed off a casual-cool look that made her look years younger than her age when she made a splash at the opening night of the Broadway play Call Me Izzy.

The 60-year-old actress showed off her impressively toned arms in a button-up best as she joined other stars on the red carpet in New York City on Thursday.

Brooke stepped out just days after she admitted to criticizing Meghan Markle for being ‘too precious’ during a live event in front of thousands of people last year.

DailyMail.com exclusively reported earlier this week that King Charles‘ goddaughter India Hicks had removed a clip of Brooke speaking about the surprising critique on her personal website.

For her Broadway attire, she paired her black vest with a flared pair of high-waisted dark-wash jeans.

The sleek pants, which emphasized her trim figure, were paired with modest black heels decorated with gold eyelets.

Brooke Shields, 60, showed off a casual-cool look that made her look years younger than her age when she made a splash at the opening night of the Broadway play Call Me Izzy in NYC on Thursday

Brooke stepped out just days after she admitted to criticizing Meghan Markle for being ‘too precious’ during a live event in front of thousands of people last year; Markle is pictured on April 23 in NYC

Brooke completed her low-key ensemble with her lustrous brunette hair, which she wore in thick waves draped over her shoulders.

She was attending the one-woman drama Call Me Izzy (its title is an allusion to Moby Dick’s opening line, ‘Call me Ishmael.’), which stars Jean Smart.

The Hacks actress plays a downtrodden housewife in Louisiana who cultivates a secret life of the mind by writing poetry, which she has to keep secret from her abusive husband, whom she also plays, in addition to other supporting characters.

Initial reviews were mixed on the play and its script, but Jean’s performance received widespread acclaim.

Brooke has been a vocal fan of Jean’s hit HBO series Hacks, which recently wrapped up its fourth season and has been renewed for a fifth. 

Last year, she told Today.com that she loved the show and Jean ‘so much,’ and she claimed its other lead Hannah Einbinder had pledged to try to get the show’s writers room to come up with a guest part for her.

When Hannah appeared on the Today Show later, she sounded shocked that Brooke would share their conversation.

‘Oh, my God! Wait, that’s so — wow, Brooke Shields that’s crazy,’ she said, before vowing to keep her promise to find a way to get the veteran actress on her show.

For her Broadway attire, she paired her black vest with a flared pair of high-waisted dark-wash jeans

The sleek pants, which emphasized her trim figure, were paired with modest black heels decorated with gold eyelets. Brooke completed her low-key ensemble with her lustrous brunette hair, which she wore in thick waves draped over her shoulders

Brooke recently caused a scandal when she admitted that she shut down Meghan Markle onstage last year.

The two were part of a panel discussing International Women’s Day at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, when the former Suits star, 43, began answering a question that Brooke thought turned overly serious.

‘Katie asks the first question to Meghan and talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women, etcetera, etcetera,’ Brooke explained.

‘[Meghan] starts telling a story about how when she was 11… And she keeps saying, well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about washing dishes and only soap for washing dishes was for women.

‘And she said, “I didn’t think only women wash dishes. It wasn’t fair. So I wrote to the company. And when I was 11, I wrote my first letter and when I was 11…” and she kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial.’

At that point, Brooke said, she couldn’t resist breaking the tension in the room and the earnestness of Meghan’s response.

‘I go, “Excuse me, I’m so sorry. I’ve got to interrupt you there for one minute.”

‘I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious.

Brooke admitted recently on King Charles’ goddaughter India Hicks podcast that she poked fun at Meghan Markle for being ‘too precious’ at SXSW in Austin, Texas, in March 2024 (pictured)

‘”I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we’re different,”‘ Brooke told the audience. ‘I said, “Well, when I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.”

‘The place went insane. And then luckily, it was more relaxed after that.’

The comment was a reference to Brooke’s breakout role as a child star in the controversial 1978 film Pretty Baby, in which she played a child sex worker, a role that sparked debate at the time and has remained the subject of intense scrutiny in the decades since.

In Austin, the moment broke the ice, as the crowd broke out into laughter.

‘I was like, oh, I hope she doesn’t think I’m rude. I’m not being rude,’ Brooke added.

India — daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, and the late interior designer David Hicks, agreed that lightening the serious mood Meghan created was the right thing to do. 

‘I think it’s genius,’ she said.

Reflecting on the exchange, Brooke added: ‘It was just too precious. And I was like, they’re not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious.’

Meghan was sharing an anecdote about getting a company to change a sexist commercial about dish soap geared toward women changed when she was just 11 

Brooke, who though the story was too dry and ‘serious,’ recalled responding, ‘Well, when I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.’ She added that she hoped Meghan didn’t find her ‘rude’

Despite the crowd’s response, Brooke acknowledged that the moment might not have gone down quite so well with Meghan herself.

‘This was in front of [thousands of people]. I mean, it was crazy,’ she said. ‘And then afterwards, she was kind of like, oh, okay. And I was like, let’s just have some fun with it.’

Brooke added: ‘I don’t know if you’ll have to cut this out.’

After the episode came both Brooke and India were accused of being ‘racist Karens’ and ‘b*****s’ on X (formerly Twitter) due to the comments.