The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.