About a year and a half ago I was having coffee with one of my professors and she said how she knew a woman who back in the 70’s wanted to be a child star. The woman’s mother was one of those shitty “Showbiz Moms” who push their kids to be actors or singers or whatever. So anyways apparently there was some movie executive who was a known pedophile in industry and took an interest in her. At the time she was like 7-9 years old and her mother pulled her aside and basically said “it’ll hurt at first but don’t you want to be a star?” And essentially handed her kid over to the guy and let her stay at his house overnight. She went to pick her up and that was the last time they ever saw that executive. She was never given a role or anything. My professor said how that’s a wildly common story in the industry of how some parents will just pass their onto some studio exec or producer in order to land a role.
yup. it is common, its the way it all goes, thats why my mom never pushed me or let me do films, other than being an extra because anything more would mean going to a “children’s” party where the only adults present were strange executive men.
and what she says is what showbiz moms always say: “yeah it sucks, but close your eyes, it’ll be all over, and we’ll be rich, and you’ll have everything”.
She mentioned those parties and how parents aren’t invited and stuff. In the wake of the metoo movement I feel like that needs to be addressed. Like there has to be a correlation between many child stars developing drug habits and going off the deep end later on in life and these creepy executives.
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