It could easily have been dubbed. Not that it is very likely that a ten year old in the business hasn’t ever heard (or used) the word.
friedo, there is a big book of rules about kids acting. I’m not sure if they are laws, or SAG rules, or both, but they got put into place after the Vic Morrow disaster. A parent is always allowed on set when a kid is filming, and is allowed to object to anything considered dangerous or unsavory. There was a tiny bit of smoke work at sets I’ve been on, and they were incredibly careful about safety. I assure you that no agent or manager would let a client even audition for a role where there could be problems without ample prior warning. The last thing she wants is for a parent to yank the kid and the production company having to find another at the last minute. That’s disruptive and expensive.
Didn’t Kubrick somehow manage to shield that young kid Danny in The Shining by using various tricks like telling him to make certain types of faces without telling/showing him what he’s supposed to be afraid of? Tho I would have sworn that he was in the same shot here and there with Jack Nicholson when the latter went axe-crazy.
Apparently everything was either post or trickery, from what I’ve heard. What I gathered from imdb a long time ago was that the kid had no clue he was even in a horror movie until years later, and now (understandably I suppose) doesn’t even want to TALK about the movie at all.
The movie’s currently banned as child porn in the USA and Europe, so don’t expect to find it on Netflix…
(Speaking of which…whatever happened to that Dakota Fanning rape movie? Did it never come out?)
You’re probably mis-remembering the controversy from The Tin Drum which caused a bit of controversy when the wrong person rented it from a rental store in Oklahoma.
In Happiness, the father has an extremely frank discussion with his young son about his pedophilia. The critic Roger Ebert found it disturbing to think the child actor may have actually been subjected to this, but he later learned no, they filmed the father’s dialogue separately, without the kid on the set. The boy’s lines were such that he really could not figure out what he was talking to the father about.
One notable example would be the stuff Linda Blair had to do for “The Exorcist”. Friedkin supposedly had a lot of trouble finding a girl he thought would be able to handle what he was going to be asking of her, such as the “masturbation with a bloody crucifix” scene. Not to mention the language - the “demon voice” was a voiceover by Mercedes McCambridge, but Blair still had to mouth all the words for the camera. All in all, lovely stuff to have a 12 year old doing.
I thought that kids were allowed in R rated movies if their parents were present. If the kid’s parents are with him in the theater, then there should be no problem.
I watched the scenes with Billy Bob & the kid again last night, and most of them could have easily been done through editing. It’s actually rare for BB’s face and the kid to be in the same frame while he’s cursing - so you may be right, they may have dubbed that scene. The checkers scene is a good example - really all you see the kid do is slide the checkers around a bit, then look at BB blankly.
Was in Leister Square last nite to watch the Dutchess, the lady at the booth were not letting in a couple take their 11 year old son in (this was at the Odeon.). So in the UK at least the theaters can not let children in.
That was Hounddog. There was an impressive interview with her that I saw on YouTube where she explained (intercut with demonstrations/clips) about how she got to know the actor who played her assailant, and how they started out with play-fighting and other things to get them both to the point where they could act out an attack. The Wiki article on the film says that the assault’s ‘actions’ weren’t really shown, her facial expression was.
Now I’m second-guessing myself as the synopses all refer to an “older boy” and I thought it was a definite adult (and I thought it was a step-father or other father figure type) who was the subject of this discussion. How many precocious young actresses have found themselves in this kind of role lately? :dubious: (Either that or my memory sucks, which I already know to be true.)
I know accidentalyuppie mentioned Pretty Baby, but wasn’t Brooke under age in Blue Lagoon, where she posed naked (although not necessarily showing things off) and doing semi-sexual scenes?