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Lauren Greenfield Goes Back to High School
The director of ‘The Queen of Versailles’ watched 2,000 hours of teens’ screen time. What she saw shocked her.
Next came Thin,which followed young women in a residential treatment center for eating disorders, then her massive hit, The Queen of Versailles,which studied a couple singularly obsessed with building the largest home in the country (and which is coming to Broadway — a s a musical starring Kristin Chenoweth — in the 2025-26 season). The family made a decision to temporarily move to Canada, where the COVID numbers were then lower; Greenfield could direct commercials, and Gabriel could do school in person. When she asked the students who among them had received a nude photo, “everybody raised their hand except one kid.” One day, the kids started talking about BDSM, and Greenfield “was shocked to hear about the choking trend and how ‘people think vanilla sex is boring and so you have to have kinks,’” she says, paraphrasing what the teens tell her in the fourth episode.
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