My daughter is painfully cute. Sure, every dad thinks this, but I happen to have empirical evidence on my side. And since I also live in L.A., my wife and I get questioned regularly about when we’re going to get an agent for her and start her on the road to child stardom.
Answer: not in this life, Jack.
She’d be great at it, no question. She’s social, talkative, has a ridiculous vocabulary for an 18-month-old, and an even more ridiculous memory. I have no doubt that if we put her in front of cameras, she’d be working steadily until I have enough money for her college education or a new Porsche.
Still. It’s not going to happen.
Here’s one reason: the process sucks. Your child, who loves you and wants nothing more than to have your love, is set up for repeated failure and rejection. Call me old-fashioned, but I think she should wait until junior high for those things like everyone else.
Here’s the other reason. I started to list all the former child stars with drug addictions/arrests/bankruptcies/all of the above. Like Robert Blake, Adam Rich, Dana Plato, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Lindsay Lohan, Jodie Sweetin, Todd Bridges, Gary Coleman, River Phoenix, Tatum O’Neal, Macaulay Culkin, Maureen McCormick…
Then I decided it would be quicker to name the former child stars who don’t have any of those problems and continue to work steadily:
![Jason_Bateman[2]](http://chrisfarnsworth.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/jason_bateman2.jpg?w=200&h=300 "Jason_Bateman[2]")
Jason Bateman.
Those are not good odds.
1 Comment
November 9, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Hmm, nature vs nature vs stardom
Just figure id through though that one out there