#child actors

[shewhotellsstories]

People tend to treat child stars having breakdowns as amusing, but realizing just how many of these children were abused makes their mental health struggles feel like, "of course, they struggled, adults they trusted violated them."

#child actors #quiet on set #fuck dan schneider

[bodhrancomedy]

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that child actors should have to take stage names. 

Like, I don’t think they should do interviews, I don’t think they should do red carpets, I don’t think we should bring them into celebrity culture at ALL.

I know it doesn’t avoid all of the problems with it but - as much as I dreamed of being discovered as an actor as a young child - as an adult with minor internet fame and a few roles under my belt, I am so FUCKING grateful I never was.

Having people see me and recognise me and approach me in public with my deadname and my skinny, vulnerable seven-year-old tomboy self, or that spotty, chubby, awkward teenage phase, or even the first few years of university would have destroyed me. 

I’m barely famous by any metric and it weirds me out completely now, let alone when I was stupid and sixteen. I had someone casually comment on a Live (which I don’t know why I do them, because I hate doing them) that they’d overheard me outside what they assumed to be my place of work - a place I was about to apply to work - talking about how I hated having to be watching myself constantly and be aware that sometimes people now know who I am and it was very disturbing. 

And I chose this. I didn’t go into this blind - and while I never imagined it getting to this stage - I had some idea of what this would entail. 

Some wide-eyed nine year old doesn’t. 

Fake names for child actors is the minimum. 

#acting #rant #i guess? #child actors

[flanaganfilm]

I’m curious what the challenges are to working with kids- such as in both Haunting series. All the child actors did a fantastic job but I can imagine it can be harder to direct kids vs adults.

The biggest challenge I've had working with kids is just logistical - they are not permitted to work nearly as many hours as their adult co-stars. And they have strictly regimented breaks between work periods that must be used for school. On projects where a younger actor needs to be in the majority of scenes (like Oculus or Before I Wake) it can create an enormous scheduling puzzle. Also, in a lot of markets they cannot work past a certain hour of night. We call it "pumpkining." So we'll need scramble to get all of their scenes done before they "pumpkin" and have to go home, leaving us with nothing to shoot - but with hours left on our day.

When it comes to the actual acting, I have spent my career being pleasantly surprised (if not downright shocked) by how prepared, professional, and precise they are. I've been very lucky, as well - I have worked with some of the absolute best young actors in the entire business. Jacob Tremblay, Lulu Wilson, Kyliegh Curran, McKenna Grace, Julian Hilliard, Violet McGraw, Annalise Basso, Garrett Ryan, Amelie Smith, Ben Ainsworth, Paxton Singleton - I mean these really are the A-team. Jacob Tremblay was 7 years old when we shot Before I Wake and he had to carry almost the whole movie. Not only did Jake show up completely prepared with his scene work every day (and delivered a heartbreaking performance), he also was prepared for his scene partners - I distinctly remember a few times Thomas Jane forgot his lines, and Jake casually reminded him what they were. That can sometimes create friction with actors on set, but because it was little Jake feeding him the lines, Tom just smiled and thanked him. I was very nervous when we were filming episode 6 of Hill House, which consists of several very long, unbroken takes. The second of these shots was a 10 minute take through Hill House that involved all five of my youngest actors. In that episode, if someone forgot a line, missed a mark, or didn't land in precisely the right place at precisely the right moment, we'd have to scrap everything we'd shot so far and start over. It was insanely difficult. I was very nervous that the kids (the youngest of which was 6) would not be up to the challenge. But when we filmed episode 6 of Hill House, the only actor in the entire cast who ever forgot a line during filming was the seasoned, established Oscar winner. The kids were PERFECT.

I've been very lucky in my career. I think I've worked with some of the absolute best young actors in the business. I have had challenges and intense difficulties with actors on my sets, but each and every one of those difficult people were grownups.

#the haunting of hill house #the haunting of bly manor #behind the scenes #before i wake #child actors #jacob tremblay #lulu wilson #mckenna grace #kyliegh curran #annalise basso

[bitchypuppystarlight]

Early on in my career a well-known actor from a show on Nickelodeon cried to me for over an hour because they no longer made enough in active or residual pay to qualify for insurance and they didn’t know what they were going to do.

Fans came up to them everyday asking for autographs and talking about how great it must have been to be famous and the whole time they couldn’t afford their medication.

I’ve never forgotten them and I sincerely hope they’re alright.

#sag strike #sag strong #wga strike #union strong #nickelodeon #it’s time to pull back the curtain #don’t ask me who it is because I can’t and won’t tell you #sag aftra #child actors #sag aftra strike

[oldshowbiz]

Tina Yothers: Cashing In

#child actors #merch #family ties #weird records #tina yothers

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Montgomery Clift, right, aged 15, as Prince Peter in Jubilee, 1935. The other boy is Jackie Kelk, playing Prince Rudolph.

The show, a musical, had a book by Moss Hart and a score by Cole Porter, and introduced the classics "Just One of Those Things" and "Begin the Beguine." It included some characters based on real people: the swimmer who becomes an actor is a spoof of Johnny Weissmuller; Noël Coward is portrayed as Eric Dare; and the party hostess Elsa Maxwell is given the name Eva Standing.

The show received rapturous reviews, with one critic calling it "one of the great theatrical events of the 1930s." But after the orchestrations were lost in transit in 1948, the show was not performed for 40 years. There have been a number of concert performances since then, but no full-scale production.

Photo: Vandamm via MCNY

#vintage New York #1930s #Vandamm #Montgomery Clift #Jubilee musical #Cole Porter #child actors #vintage Broadway #Jubilee #musical comedy #musical theater

[heartencasedingold]

Casting and chemistry here remains top tier.

#the chi #child actors #tv

[gillianthecat]

I'm watching the first episode of Goblin aka Guardian: The Lonely and Great God and the child actor who plays the main character as a young girl is so good. I thought she must be a really young looking twelve year old or something, but no, she was seven when she filmed this. She has some fairly complicated scenes with a lot of nuanced emotions, and she absolutely nails it.

The film industry seems to agree, at age 14 Han Seo Jin has already been in 20 different shows.

#han seo jin #child actors #goblin kdrama #guardian the lonely and great god #kdramas

[parasocial-work]

Society owes an apology to youth actors.

Moreover, we should be considering not supporting any work that hasn’t proactively shown how it’s going to protect the best interests of the child through not just production, but the navigation of fame, family stressors, and the seemingly inevitable role that trauma has on addiction and general health.

#child actors #family vloggers #I’m looking at you #mental health #trauma #youth liberation

[nerdby]

Hollywood has got to start asking for background checks on actors and hiring on-set mental health professionals cause everything happening with Jonathan Majors and Tenoch Huerta is freaking ridiculous.

I'm tired of seeing this shit and I'm even more tired of hearing about child stars being abused and ending up having complete mental breakdowns like Brittany Spears or Micheal Jackson or the horror stories you Jeannette McCurdy wrote. These stories are more common than you'd think, and it is always always always the kids being villainized. No one stops to ask what their parents were doing that could have contributed to the situation.

And, yes, I am 1000% more concerned with the safety and mental health of child actors than I am with some random who could be lying through their teeth, making false accusations, or is just as abusive as the person they're vilifying just like with Johnny Depp and Amber Herd. I don't agree with anything Johnny did -- I think he's a shit person, but I think Amber Herd is also a shit person who probably provoked him.

They're both shitty human beings and I'm gonna say this again cause I know that if I don't I'll catch hell from the radfems on this app: I am a domestic abuse and rape survivor. Which is absolute fucking bullshit --

I should NOT be forced to relive my trauma just because I refuse to buy into gender essentialism bullshit that women are incapable of being abusers and men are pure evil.

I am so fucking disappointed with Marvel and I just don't give a shit. I don't care if Jonathan Majors gets recast. He is amazing as Kang, but personally I'd be more upset to be Tenoch go and I'm going to be so pissed off if these accusations are true because Namor is one of my favorite lesser known Marvel characters. And if the character gets written out of the MCU because of this shit, I'm gonna scream. Not just cause I love the character but also because I love that they're using Namor to address the issues of colonialism and intersectionality and racial tensions in BIPOC communities. That's cause I'm just really passionate about the Civil Rights Movement.

I don't know but I'm really upset right now.

#comic books #marvel comics #marvel cinematic universe #mcu #tenoch huerta #jonathan majors #mental health #youtube #movies #nostalgia #tv and movies #child stars #child actors #ptsd #jeannette mccurdy #feminism #intersectionality #intersectional feminism

[dlasta]

For some reason there is nothing much about Alexa Nikolas and Eat Predators here on tumblr. And even Youtube shows fairly low-ish numbers despite the subject, her name and the names she is mentioning. Super weird, you'd think people want to know.

Anyway, if anybody is interested in movie/tv industry creepers and actual criminals, wants to know names and whatnot, check her videos. She's a former child actor, angry as hell, willing to go there and name names.

#alexa nikolas #eat predators #abuse #harassment #child abuse #rich predators and their friends (who also may be predators) #hollywood fuckery #(not just hollywood but that's the core of it) #child actors #rape #I am genuinely worried about her safety #she's not gonna stop and right now they're just making it hard to get the info out as proper news #but it's not very well hidden how it all connects and she is calling people out for rel #Youtube

[redribbonsandblood]

I hate child actors they fill me with jealousy until I unwillingly explode and make a mess of my room.

#blood and guts on the wall I don't know who's going to clean this up #child actors #acting #this is a girlblog #hell is a teenage girl #im just a girl #female hysteria #coquette #girlblogging #girlhood #female insanity

[oldshowbiz]

Baby Peggy

#silent film #child actors

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Child film star Jackie Cooper paid a call on Arthur Willersdorf, 13, in Beth David Hospital, November 5, 1934. The hospital superintendent had written to Jackie, who was in New York on a visit, saying that the call would do the boy “more good than all the medicine in the world.” Arthur had rheumatic heart disease.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Jackie Cooper #child actors #celebrity visit #Nov. 5 #5 Nov. #sick children #vintage NYC

[dprtiddiegang]

been listening to jennette mccurdys audio book, my heart goes out to her and her brothers. her mother was so evil. reminds me a bit of my own mother.

also the creator is a fucking pig and deserves hell and anything worse that comes after.

jennette and her brothers and any child actor deserves better!

a good take away is jennette knows how to tell a story and her voice is just so calming. i need to get into her podcast after this. i’ve always been a fan and i’m glad she’s sharing her story and is still with us today.

#i’m glad my mom died #jennette mccurdy #child actors #the creator

[idontreallyknow26]

IM SCREAMING THE YOUNGER CAST OF HOTD (Harvey, Leo Ashton, Leo Hart, Evie Allen, and Shani Smethurst) ARE GOING TO BE AT THE LONDON COMICON IN JULY IM SO EXCITED IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THE YOUNGER CAST (ESPECIALLY EVIE) TO GET THEIR MOMENTS AHHH <333

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotd cast #evie allen #leo ashton #leo hart #harvey sadler #shani smethurst #comic con #little hotd cast #child actors #london #london comic con #comic con 2023 #<3