Why do they mostly use actors in their late 20s or early 30s to play teenage roles in movies/ tv series? Couldn’t they use teenage actors instead?
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The answers folks are giving about actor experience and child labor laws are absolutely correct. There is another factor, though, that’s not insignificant: appearing in mass media can be _phenomenally_ psychologically taxing on any performer, and it can be devastating for a developing mind. There are so many cases of promising child actors who go on to suffer severe mental health and substance abuse problems. At a certain point, hiring a child to appear in a television show or movie becomes an ethical challenge: can you really put a child, who cannot possibly understand what they’re agreeing to undergo, through something that is very often traumatic?
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