Child Star
Child Star
Child Star: Lovato, who is undoubtedly one of the most fearless and squeaky voices in the showbiz, looking at a TCP movie on the television during her visit to her great grandparents’ house once declared, “I wanted to be the youngest and the best at what I do”, and explains how she was influenced at quite an early age.
One such feeling, which most young actors and aspiring artists across all fields have, is the one that swings around Child Star. The movie eventually offers a vehicle for several performers – who are partially known for how young they appeared when they first debuted – to express how transformation shaped their perspective of the world and their roles within it.
The majority of the Hulu docuseries that will be aired on September 17 is made of seemingly casual yet intimate exchanges between Lovato and her subjects which provides viewers with captivating contexts for shows and movies that were influential during the season.
She discusses with Drew Barrymore and Christina Ricci about looking up to already established authorities in the industry such as Steven Spielberg and Cher as parental figures. All of his money earned through Nickelodeon was almost taken away by one crooked accountant, recalls Kenan Thompson. Disney colleague Raven talks about episodes of loss of self that happened to Lovato during the shooting of the feature films for the Disney studios. Jojo Siwa plans workshops with young people in which she acknowledges missing career possibilities after coming out. Chris Columbus, the director who made Home Alone and the first two Harry Potter films, offers an insider’s view of how young stars are managed once they hit the exponential fame.
Lovato coshared the film’s more showcase parts with Stoner, who featured in Camp Rock with her (yes, they in fact touch on the matter “She is incredibly talented!”). They talk about “Disney High,” a phrase young Disney kids humorously came up with to describe the bogus environment they created with on-set school and romance between co-stars, but also talked about eating disorders and chronic anxiety.
In particular, a few of the interviews when Lovato was picturing herself on a couch in someone’s quiet home or in a coffee shop, the film identifies that the phenomenon of garnering child stars in Hollywood has increasingly worsened. Lovato herself became a Celebrity on the Disney Channel during the peak era when the company was very much into children-focused content.
The 2000s were certainly a follow-up to a decade in which Cheetah Girls, Hannah Montana, and Lovato’s own show about the showbiz Sonny with a Chance, were introduced to its teenage audience as an ideal about the fate of a teenage star. There is a certain.
Constant praise for many of these actors from the industry and absolute bullying, seclusion, and abuse from fans and peers seem to be the offnote.
There’s even some discussion of the influx of children on social media who do not have the same level of safeguards as other children in the spotlight, such as Hollywood stars and starlets, who because of countless laws in place designed, inter alia, to protect young actors from exploitation. (Just last year, a bill was signed into legislation that enabled minor children to sue their parents for income earned while they were child influencers.) The most appropriate situation is described by Barrymore in her efforts to explain how child stars are, simply put, first “a commodity, a product A-list artists.’’
While Child Star can be said to have some elements of catharsis, it is never particularly bleak when it comes to the causes of drug abuse and self-harm—though the movie touches more serious matters such as eating disorders, drug abuse, and self-harm, it is not too preoccupied with placing blame for such problems on someone or something in the first place. (After all, Hulu is a company under the umbrella of the Walt Disney Company.)
The Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which earlier this year began streaming in the USA as part of a true-crime docuseries, zoomed in on other distressing themes too in that it tackled the supposed misconduct surrounding Dan Schneider, a Nickelodeon producer, blamed by many former child actors who worked under him.
Child Star does not present anything as provocative as a true crime genre, but it raises the question – and expectation – of exploitation as a factor felt within an industry operating on child labor.
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- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United States
- Director: Demi Lovato, Nicola Marsh
- Cast: Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore, Alyson Stoner
