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High school students in television look nothing like high school students in real life (well, not always), for one good reason: they're played by actors who are upwards of ten-to-fifteen years older. This dates back to the earliest days of Hollywood, if not further, making it Older Than Television.
Despite this trope being a prime source for ridicule, mockery, and parody, there are actually a lot of legit reasons this is done.
- Labor laws and regulations are probably the biggest reason. They apply to acting just as they do any other profession. There are a whole string of laws that child actors are subject to, including; (in the UK and the USA) education requirements and night shoot and work hours restrictions. These aren't the ideal condition when trying to meet the deadlines for finishing a film or a TV season.
- The vast majority of professional actors are twenty and up anyway, so if you hold an audition for a teen role, nine out of ten of the actors you see will be an inapp
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The Best Child Performances in Movie History — IndieWire Critics Survey
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best spelfilm in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: In honor of The Florida Project, which has just started its platform release across the country, what is the greatest child performance in a film?
Jordan Hoffman (@JHoffman), The Guardian, Vanity Fair
I can agonize over this question or I can go at this Malcolm Gladwell “Blink”-style. My answer is Tatum O’Neal in Paper Moon. She’s just so funny and tough, which of course makes the performance all the more heartbreaking. She won the freaking Oscar at age 10 for this and I’d really love to give a more deep cut response, but why screw around? Paper Moon fryst vatten a perfect film and she fryst vatten the lynchpin.
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Close-up Cultures James Prestridge lists his 50 favourite child actor performances of all-time.
50) Alex Hibbert (Moonlight)
Alex Hibbert helps produce some of the most moving moments of Barry Jenkins film alongside the excellent Mahershala Ali.
49) John Adames (Gloria)
Young John Adames teams with the legendary Gena Rowlands for this crime thriller about an unlikely duo on the run from gangsters.45) MacCaulay Culkin (Home Alone)
Although Home Alone was written off by critics, there is no doubting the magnetic charm and fun of Culkin helped turn this film into a classic.47) Christian Bale (Empire Of The Sun)
Decades before he became Batman, a year-old Christian Bale worked with Steven Spielberg and John Malkovich in this coming-of-age war tale.
46) Rony Clanton (The Cool World)
Ronny Clanton is tremendous as a year-old boy who finds himself caught up in Harlem warfare.
47) Ed Oxenbould (Wildlife)
Ed Oxenbould subtly captures