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re: Spinoff: Would you let your child be in the film industry?
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:37 pm to saint amant steve
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:37 pm to saint amant steve
Hope you don't have kids. You're a worthless pos parent
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Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:45 pm to dukke v
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I fun it comical you youngsters fall in love with a pair of tits........
...says the guy with a pair in his avy.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:52 pm to BamaFan70
quote:
Hope you don't have kids. You're a worthless pos parent
I'm just an opportunist, Sir.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:58 pm to OMLandshark
quote:I remember this guy from Head of the Class series, Hot Resort and Better Off Dead.
I also remember Kirk Cameron claiming Growing Pains' producers were pornographers. Turned out one was sentenced for having child porn 6 years ago:
LINK
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:04 pm to dukke v
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I fun it comical you youngsters fall in love with a pair of tits
Where do you get love from that? I've seen the fappenning, and her tits are amazing. But at 33, I know that tits are the first thing to go. In the long run, b cups or small Cs tend to be best. Ds and bigger eventually become tube socks.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:53 pm to saint amant steve
Nope. Just a worthless POS.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:57 pm to scpirate
My daughter is a child actress. She is 11 and she did her first feature film at 7. She's in three films in 2016 and she has worked steadily in both TV series, commercials, and films.
We have a few rules that keep things simple:
1) We have decided not to move to L.A.
2) We have kept her in school (90% of the kids she reads against are home schooled and basically full time actresses).
3) She has to maintain straight As
4) We do not socialize with anyone else in the business. We attend her premieres and her press events, but we don't go to the parties
Entertainment is a big business. When you're on set, expenses are running as much as $100k an hour. No one is messing around.
The SAG has someone watching the kids all the time. On top of that, a parent must be there whenever the kid is on set.
They can be on set 12 hours a day, but 3 hours of that must be in school. They are not flexible. Everything is done by the book.
I am sure lots of shady stuff goes on in Hollywood. But it doesn't happen on set. And it doesn't happen during "casting calls". Most of our casting is done via video uplink. When we get a callback that requires a trip to L.A. or N.Y or wherever, it's always been very professional.
The biggest issue we've had (and it's a small issue) is that when we meet someone in a social setting, people like to say: So, this is the actress!!! We have two other kids, and they get ignored. So there's some issues there.
The other thing is -- and I see it as a positive -- that you've got a young girl getting "crushed" when she doesn't get a role.
For instance, she has been cut down from 300 to 30 to 10 and then to "final 2 or 3" for about 6 MAJOR roles. To the point where they've flown us out for "chemistry reads" with the top line talent. Mathew McConnaghey, Mark Wahlberg, Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Cruise, etc.
But she's only got 2 of those big roles that she was a finalist for. She gets lots of other "mid level work". But knowing she was that close to roles like that, and somehow came up short....thats tough on a 9yo girl.
By the time she gets out of High School, she will have been rejected more times than most people in their whole life. So, there's good lessons there.
We have a few rules that keep things simple:
1) We have decided not to move to L.A.
2) We have kept her in school (90% of the kids she reads against are home schooled and basically full time actresses).
3) She has to maintain straight As
4) We do not socialize with anyone else in the business. We attend her premieres and her press events, but we don't go to the parties
Entertainment is a big business. When you're on set, expenses are running as much as $100k an hour. No one is messing around.
The SAG has someone watching the kids all the time. On top of that, a parent must be there whenever the kid is on set.
They can be on set 12 hours a day, but 3 hours of that must be in school. They are not flexible. Everything is done by the book.
I am sure lots of shady stuff goes on in Hollywood. But it doesn't happen on set. And it doesn't happen during "casting calls". Most of our casting is done via video uplink. When we get a callback that requires a trip to L.A. or N.Y or wherever, it's always been very professional.
The biggest issue we've had (and it's a small issue) is that when we meet someone in a social setting, people like to say: So, this is the actress!!! We have two other kids, and they get ignored. So there's some issues there.
The other thing is -- and I see it as a positive -- that you've got a young girl getting "crushed" when she doesn't get a role.
For instance, she has been cut down from 300 to 30 to 10 and then to "final 2 or 3" for about 6 MAJOR roles. To the point where they've flown us out for "chemistry reads" with the top line talent. Mathew McConnaghey, Mark Wahlberg, Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Cruise, etc.
But she's only got 2 of those big roles that she was a finalist for. She gets lots of other "mid level work". But knowing she was that close to roles like that, and somehow came up short....thats tough on a 9yo girl.
By the time she gets out of High School, she will have been rejected more times than most people in their whole life. So, there's good lessons there.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:00 pm to scpirate
NC14 did
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:36 pm to scpirate
Nope, if someone else wants to, that's their business.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:40 pm to SuperSaint
Hollywood execs haven´t grown in physical stature at all since the 50´s, I see.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:49 pm to No Colors
quote:oh so your daughter has only landed 2 'MAJOR' roles with top talent like Cruise, McConnaghey and the likes???.... I gotcha...
to "final 2 or 3" for about 6 MAJOR roles. To the point where they've flown us out for "chemistry reads" with the top line talent. Mathew McConnaghey, Mark Wahlberg, Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Cruise, etc.
But she's only got 2 of those big roles that she was a finalist for.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:06 pm to SuperSaint
quote:
oh so your daughter has only landed 2 'MAJOR' roles with top talent like Cruise, McConnaghey and the likes???.... I gotcha...
Actually, yes.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:25 pm to No Colors
Say you can save her from the major molesting monsters in the industry. What if she actually becomes truly famous tomorrow, as in household name? I wouldn't want to subject my kid to that. Yes, it's good to introduce a kid to failure early on, but fame I really think can frick with people hardcore.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:32 pm to OMLandshark
It's something we think about every single day.
The good news is that the entertainment business has really changed. It's much "deeper" than it used to be.
For the longest time, Hollywood was feast or famine. The top stars made huge money, and everyone else was waiting tables on the side.
Now, there are literally thousands of actors you've never heard of, hammering away at very solid careers making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Basically, careers that are very comparable to compensation rates for other successful professionals. We tell her that it's just like being a doctor or a school teacher or anything else. It's a job, so you better enjoy it.
If things get too hot, too quick, we can always throttle it back.
The good news is that the entertainment business has really changed. It's much "deeper" than it used to be.
For the longest time, Hollywood was feast or famine. The top stars made huge money, and everyone else was waiting tables on the side.
Now, there are literally thousands of actors you've never heard of, hammering away at very solid careers making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Basically, careers that are very comparable to compensation rates for other successful professionals. We tell her that it's just like being a doctor or a school teacher or anything else. It's a job, so you better enjoy it.
If things get too hot, too quick, we can always throttle it back.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:34 pm to scpirate
Hell no.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 11:38 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
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Alexandra Daddario,
A nude pictures of her is next to the word "tits" in the dictionary.
They are perfect in every way.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:35 am to No Colors
Kudos to y'all for making sure your daughter is squared away and not getting involved into anything she shouldn't be. I would imagine that parental involvement is huge in something like this, as it is with most activities involving kids.
I think the kids that are at the most risk for abuse are the ones who's parents don't care or just look at their kid as a cash cow and their ticket to the big bucks.
I think the kids that are at the most risk for abuse are the ones who's parents don't care or just look at their kid as a cash cow and their ticket to the big bucks.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 11:43 am to scpirate
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I think the kids that are at the most risk for abuse are the ones who's parents don't care or just look at their kid as a cash cow and their ticket to the big bucks.
You wouldn't believe what we see out there from other parents. The typical girl my daughter reads against circles west L.A. county in a Suburban, with a driver and a tutor. Her mother is working two phones in the front seat, networking, setting up publicity, pushing for auditions, etc. The tutor is supposed to be teaching school work, but actually all she's doing is going over lines for the next audition.
We read against one girl for a big part last year. And the girl was 9 and she had 82 official credits on her resume. My daughter is 11 and she has 13 credits. The director was like: You mean you're actually in school? In mississippi???
A lot of people don't realize this. But when your minor child works and makes money, they pay taxes on it. But it actually belongs to the parents. Every penny.
The only difference is the Entertainment business. California has a special law by which 20% of a child's earnings must be held in trust for them. But the other 80% still belongs to the parents.
It's a huge incentive to push your kid to make money.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 11:56 am to No Colors
Did you have to set up a Coogan account? I had to do that for my twins when they were in a movie.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 12:00 pm to scpirate
Yes, but obvious caveats would be in place. I'd be more worried my kid would turn into another burned out child star.
Any money they receive would be put into multiple trusts. One for college and one for when they turn 28. I wouldn't reimburse any mileage or anything like that out of my kids money.
Any money they receive would be put into multiple trusts. One for college and one for when they turn 28. I wouldn't reimburse any mileage or anything like that out of my kids money.
This post was edited on 5/25/16 at 12:02 pm
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