Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.
Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
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.
That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.