My now 17 year old, 6’ tall, gangly son used to do a bit of acting when he was between 8 and 12 years old. Mainly small parts in TV dramas, and a few ads. There was one he did for a hand-held game (remember Tamagochis?) when he was 9 years old, and it is STILL being shown on the telly!!
I just heard cackling laughter coming from the lounge-room, and a “Muuuuum…c’mon check THIS out” and belted in to see my then cute and sweet son on the screen. Funniest of all though was to hear him speak from back then. I’d forgotten how squeaky little-boy voices can be.
Best friend had a photographer do shots of her kids. Photographer was so pleased with the outcome, she negotiated the rights with my friend. Photos got sold to major High-end frame maker, so my friend now has a photo of her kids, in a beautiful frame, with the price printed right on her son’s knee.
Pretty funny. She said the look on the clerk’s face as she bought the thing, with “the frame kids” with her, was, as they say, “priceless”
Heh. A guy I went to high school with was featured in a commercial advertising a sale for a regional department store chain, shot back when he was about eleven years old. Rather than pay for a new commercial, they just dragged that clip out for every non-holiday sale until the chain finally went bankrupt. Poor guy. Every time the commercial came on TV again, he’d have to put up with a day or three of people sneaking up behind him in the halls, repeating his lines (with Great! Enthusiasm!) in a squeaky falsetto.
He was often heard to mumble something about not getting paid enough for this torture…
My dad used to (and still does) make commercials. We moved to a different state 7 years ago, and when we go back, sometimes we can still hear is voice-overs. My stepmother sang a jingle for a furniture store, and they used that for probably 15 years, or until they went out of business.
I never have to worry about seeing myself in an old commercial. The summer before 5th grade, I agreed to be in a seat-belt public service announcement. That fall, I started at a new elementary school and got teased mercilessly about it. After that, I refused to be in another commercial for him.
