Surviving as a Child Actor
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acting skill behind it.
In fairness to the parents, mentors and guardians of young would-be actors who have attended acting schools, all of this can come on very fast and very early in contrast to other potential careers. Parent of kids who decide to become lawyers, doctors or accountants need to start taking good decisions about those careers as high school draws to a close. In the case of young actors, a great deal of damage can be done well before then unless good decisions are taken early on.
I suppose that I was about eight when I decided that I wanted to act and I told my parents as much. Needless to say, they had no idea that I was making a statement about what I was going to spend the rest of my life doing, any more than I suppose I did. However, when the first thing that happened to me was an open-call audition resulting in me becoming the lead
