My Question of the Day: Child actors have been in the movie business for years. Imagine your youngster wants to act in a movie, tries out for the part and is chosen out of hundreds of other children. The script calls for your child to use a lot of profanity and even has him/her involved in watching some violent scenes that are to go on around him/her, even though he/she does not have to participate in them. Do you allow your child to be involved in the movie?

My 2 Cents: My answer is a flat-out, unequivocal NO!

My child would not participate unless all the profanity was removed from his/her lines and the script called for him/her to be off-camera when the violent scenes take place. If these revisions are out of the question, my child is out of the movie.

I don’t have a problem with my child wanting to be in movies, but we’re going to set the standard of what he/she can and cannot do at this early point in his/her career.  It will dictate the tone of the rest of his/her career, and we’re not compromising this early in the game.

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