Child-acting and consequences (was Re. Dan Interview with Rosie)

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Nicky <azingam at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, from what I have seen Elijah Wood seems to have survived
> > being a 
> > child star without too much lasting damage? [Not that I know anything
> > about 
> > him] So hopefully Daniel, with his parents supervision, will also.
> > 
> 
> Elijah Wood has been extremely outspoken in regards to child-acting.
> Called it false and dangerous, or something like that. Maybe he regrets
> having missed out on all that normalcy. We all know that Michael
> Jackson and McCauley Kulkin *sp* had terrible childhoods, so Elijah had
> it pretty easy in comparison.
> 
> What concerns me is that after the 7(+) movies, Dan Radcliffe will be
> known as Harry Potter. Unless he changes his looks in some drastic way,
> he won't shake that off, and film roles offered to him might be a
> little...stale. Rupert Grint has, of course, managed to avoid that, but
> I wonder if Dan will be so lucky?

Perhaps after completing the HP series, Dan will retire and go on to enjoy doing 
whatever he wants with his life and never think about acting again.  His parents 
seem semsible -- unlikely that he'll end up like Jackson or Culkin.  For one thing, 
they both started much younger than he -- at least Dan had a "normal" childhood 
up til recently.

Saw an interview last night with Jerry Mathers, who sarred in "Leave it to  
Beaver" on a popular TV series in the US in the fifties for about 5 years starting 
when he was about 8.  He seems happy and well-adjusted, pleased that his 
parents took good care of his earnings so he's basically not had to worry about 
work ever again. And that was just from a few years of TV -- Dan will be all set.  
The HP productin schedule is quite rigorous -- don't assume that Dan will ever 
want to be in front of a camera again!