Would You Let Your 10 Year Old Daughter Play Esther?
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writerchick89 — 11 years ago(July 08, 2014 02:49 PM)
I agree with you, joelle-evergreen. I don't have children, but if I did, I wouldn't let them either. I wouldn't like my niece or nephew doing it either. I feel like even if you can say some of these child actors are mature for their age, they're still kids, and you want kids to be innocent for as long as possible, not exposed to certain things. I know it can't be helped eventually, but protecting my child (if I had one) would be my main goal as a mother. I'm not saying don't let them do anything or hover over them. I just mean protecting them from things that can harm them mentally, emotionally or physically, aside from normal childhood things like falling off your bike or whatever.
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loves_to_dream — 13 years ago(July 10, 2012 12:26 AM)
I think it would really depend on the maturity of my daughter like someone else posted. Also it depends on how they plan on going about filming the movie. Will my child know exactly what the movie is about or will they tell her something different but that would still get the same results? I know that in the case of a horror movie that is almost impossible to do but it has been done before. Just take The Shining for example. The little boy in the movie who was cast to play Danny was never told that he was filming a horror movie. He was instead told it was a drama. He also did not find out it was a horror movie until he was 13 and was shown an extremely edited version. When he finally saw the original uncut movie he was 17, which would have been 11 years after he filmed the movie.
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MarthaJonesSmith — 13 years ago(July 14, 2012 03:14 PM)
No. I wouldn't let my daughter play a role such as Esther. It makes children grow up too fast and it just seems morally corrupt.
Cameron Bright's role in 'BIRTH' creeps me out too. I think he was way too young for such a role.
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MarthaJonesSmith — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 02:15 PM)
No, she's no longer as innocent as she was, neither is Dakota Fanning. When children get a glimpss too soon of the adult world, it changes their thoughts, ways of thinking, how they relate to there friends and who they relate to in the future. Their non-showbiz friends may not be ready to understand why their friend had to do such things for a 'job' and money. People will start to perceive them in a more adult manner, there too much mental responsibility that they don't realize that they aren't prepared for and then they end up numbing themselves is various ways to distract their minds from thinking about the changes that they have gone through too soon. Geez, look was happened to Tatum O'Neal and Drew Barrymore! This is why therapist in California and New York make so much money.
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MarthaJonesSmith — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 05:54 PM)
No, actually I'm not. I didn't say that she wasn't doing 'fine'. I said that her innocence and way of thinking has changed. A child outside of the industry has a more innocent life that one who is inside the industry. No one is upset, it is just experience being conveyed. Thank you.
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