This is why I wouldn’t encourage parents to put their kids into acting. I was a child actor myself and was a good friend to someone mentioned on your list (OP). Kids are treated weirdly in the industry (sometimes badly, sometimes harmfully positively, e.g., inflating their egos and forcing them into early adulthood) and I left as a teen after hearing one of my friends called a “nobody” at a party because he was t a big name actor. It grossed me out. People aren’t somebodies or nobodies. Anyway: it’s too much for almost any kid to handle, most of them get into drugs very young. I’m lucky i got out as safely as I did.
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This is why I wouldn’t encourage parents to put their kids into acting. I was a child actor myself and was a good friend to someone mentioned on your list (OP). Kids are treated weirdly in the industry (sometimes badly, sometimes harmfully positively, e.g., inflating their egos and forcing them into early adulthood) and I left as a teen after hearing one of my friends called a “nobody” at a party because he was t a big name actor. It grossed me out. People aren’t somebodies or nobodies. Anyway: it’s too much for almost any kid to handle, most of them get into drugs very young. I’m lucky i got out as safely as I did.