Surviving as a Child Actor
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aspiring actor can do is to make sure that they don’t get hurt along the way – either along the way to becoming an adult actor, or along the way to discovering that this isn’t really what they want to do. There are various important aspects to this.
The first is to lead a child to understand that their value as an artist is in no way linked to their fame and / or fortune. There are (of-course) people in the entertainment industry who’s business it is to market and sell talent – to push what they view as profitable and to drop what they see as unprofitable. A child has to be made to see that their worth as an artist and as an individual is absolutely unrelated to what they are ‘worth’ to their agents.
The second is to make a child understand that there is nobody at all who can bring what they can bring to any role. It is ultimately any
