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kontextmaschine:

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

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

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

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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The sexualization is probably hardest on girls 14-18 in part because of all the “protective” regulations on young actors, as the result of which they’re part of a set-aside-from-normal life system to accommodate, with all sorts of structures and dynamics and local elites that don’t really interact with anything outside of it, but at that point the parents aren’t a load-bearing part.

But to complicate, actresses that age are selected on being able to (sexily) appear younger, for characters of that age you just cast runty 18-year-olds with a lot less regulatory hassle.

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