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And for whoever\u2019s hammering my inbox, no, when I was Hollywood I did work with a management company that had a line in kids/teens but really I didn\u2019t see any dirty stuff

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the \u201cdirty, exploitative\u201d gossip I heard was how aspiring stage moms would pay to go to \u201ctalent expos\u201d in, like, Hawai\u2019i, where agents would be paid to fly in and sleep with EACH OTHER and have a vacation and AT BEST some of these kids would get a chance to move to LA to try to make money for the agents

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for all that there WERE hypersexual 14-year-olds with moms who vicariously enjoyed the attention

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and the most earnest stage parents who would bend their morals - I remember an evangelical family who didn\u2019t want their elementary-age angel in stuff that said mild curses, but when Scientologists solicited him for an internal campaign that paid, and I called up saying \u201cyou probably aren\u2019t interested but it\u2019s my job to ask?\u201d they were like \u201cwelllllll\u201d

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honestly MY biggest moral \u201coh jeez\u201d was this family from Orange County who wouldn\u2019t pull their daughter out of school and drive her up for every casting because she has a life there and the school officials were obviously complaining

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and I was assigned the task of calling them up and saying hey we\u2019re not an after-school enrichment program, were a business that gets paid when you book shoots and you book shoots by going to auditions and if you don\u2019t go to auditions we\u2019ll drop you and she\u2019ll know you fucked up her dream

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and I was terrible at it and the principals had to do it themselves and that\u2019s probably part of how I got fired but cmon it\u2019s hollywood I expected to get fired by assholes

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the counterpoint to\u00a0\u201cwhy are all the teenage characters played by 28 year olds\u201d is would you rather they are played by actual children

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no, it’s “California regulations limit the amount of filming per day by age bracket and runts who can play younger (but more sexually aware) have an edge”.

That’s why the Olsens, at the infant level you needed twins to meet a sitcom schedule.

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