"You practically have to pre-shoot all the scenes while they're in class."

Recasting a child actor has always carried a certain quiet awkwardness to it. One week a familiar young face is on screen, the next week a different kid is sitting at the same fictional kitchen table. Audiences mostly shrug. Studios move on. But the ...

For decades, the Disney Channel has been the ultimate star-making machine, churning out pop icons and box-office leads with mathematical precision. However, the glittering success of the "Mouse House" often came with a heavy price: an iron-clad contract ...

The first thing the child actor discovers is universal love, quickly followed by universal hatred. The whipsaw between the two leaves a mark, even after the stage or set is abandoned. The universal love is the applause, either heard in person or received ...

Ariana Grande has called for "more protection" of child stars. The 31-year-old pop singer shot to fame as a teenager when she took on the role of Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious in the late 2000s and while she "loved" that time so much ...

There is a long-running myth that proposes that child stardom and financial stability hardly go hand in hand. Even though plenty of young performers earn fortunes, only to see them dwindle away years later, there are plenty of other child stars who take ...

The Hollywood landscape is filled with tragic tales of fallen child stars, as RadarOnline.com has often reported. Sudden fame and fortune at a young age can clearly affect the maturity and development of the young actor, however, some performers who found ...

A rock and roll romance. Two stars from the movie “School of Rock” have tied the knot more than two decades after meeting on the beloved 2003 film. Angelo Massagli and Caitlin Hale were just 10 years old when they first crossed paths at the audition ...

Being a child star sounds like a kind of purgatory: Sure, you get fame, fortune, and don't have to go to school, but you also grow up fast, are at risk of being taken advantage of financially, and lose out on many aspects of a "normal" childhood.