You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
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I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work.
I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.
Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.
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