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I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
A lot of people don’t like child actors.
Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they’re 15 they can play 11 or when they’re 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn’t have.
I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors’ hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
I’ve been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don’t particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they’ve had whatever real innocence that’s in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It’s no good.
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn’t want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn’t ever want to do it again.
When child actors act well they’re just reacting to situations, and they’re acting very real because their life experience is so short; there’s no history to fall back on.
A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.
If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the ‘child actors argument’.
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
It’s a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it’s difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that notoriety and fame, and things can go really wrong. But I had a terrific family and grew up very normal in Phoenix.
I’d see child actors and I’d get so jealous, because they’re just completely wide open.
Child actors are notorious for being brats.
I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they’ve done a job.
Child actors don’t have great track records.
Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn’t put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there’s balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.
‘At Freddie’s’ takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.
Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.
We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that ‘Zakhm’ was going to be my last film as a child actor and after that I took a six year break for education.
There’s a constant flow of child actors. It’s kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You’re going to have to struggle for a long time.
I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We’re normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we’re ‘real’ people.
I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.
