Watching Game of Thrones and Grown Ups (Adam Sandler). In both instances a kid of about 9ish appears to be breast feeding off of a grown woman.
Not mad or anything, but I’m sure there’s a double standard in there somewhere.
Seriously, how the heck did they get away with that?
I’m thinking there must have been prosthetic boobs.
Maybe it was a young-looking 12-year-old. Best job ever!
Don’t have a GQ answer for the OP, but since we’re in Cafe Society and not GQ I will chime in anyway.
Googling “Game of Thrones breastfeeding” (I’ve never watched the show), brings a handful of results that reference the kid as being 6years old- which is about how old the actor looks to be (don’t know the character, so can’t look up the actor on imdb).
http://w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=oNbrKJ_nVZs
The kid in Grownups is referred to as being 4years old- which is about how old the actor looks to be (actor’s birth year not listed on imdb).
Assuming there really was physical contact between the child actor’s mouth and the actress’ nipple, I don’t find anything particularly noteworthy about it. Wouldn’t have been a sexual experience for a child that age, wouldn’t have been a sexual experience for the actress.
For a 4 or 6 year old child, breastfeeding would be understood to be the very and sole purpose of breasts. Just an explanation to the child actor (involving his parents in the discussion), that we’re telling a story about a somewhat odd mommy who kept breastfeeding long after most mommies would have stopped, and I’d say the child actor would be fully ready to approach the scene with the same comfort with which he approaches all make-believe.
Given that there really ARE some “odd mommies” out there who keep breastfeeding until very advanced ages, there might actually have been a casting call specifically for older children who still breastfeed.
Then you don’t even have to get into explaining to the kid that it’s all pretend - it’s just doing what comes normally!
What’s the current thinking? Ween them when they are old enough to speak and clearly ask to breast feed?
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Thank you, kind sir.
biennville: One of the videos in that search has the character’s name in the description. . The kid in King of Thrones is named Robin Aryn and is played by Lino Facioli, who was born in 2000, and thus was likely 9 or 10 when the show aired.
And, when I look at the clip, I see fake breast sans nipple.
Lordy, it’s been censored. The original clip contained a nipple.
“If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.”
- Jack Nicholson
Thanks, BiggT.
Small kid. Could play 7 easily.
The breast in that clip really doesn’t look like it belongs to the actress sporting it, but even if it were her real breast, with a 9 or 10 year old actor I’d still think it no big deal- 10 might be borderline*. At 9 or 10 kids are more aware that, for adults, there’s something “sexual” about breasts (with as little meaning as the word “sexual” has at that age), but I still think a child that age is much more connected to the feeding purpose of breasts.
*Really, I think you just have to have a child actor who has parents that have always been open with conversation about bodies and who will be engaged with the boy making sure he is comfortable.
Certainly, a situation like “O.K., the director needs you to do this with the woman playing the mom. Don’t ask any questions, never talk about it after. Just bring that juicy SAG pay home to mommy and daddy.” could be a potentially damaging situation if it causes confusion on the child’s part and/or a sense of guilt thinking of himself being pressured into doing something “bad”.
What’s the double standard, exactly? Whaddya mean, “how did they get away with that?” Get away with what?
Game of Thrones is on HBO. Everyone knows HBO has no standards. Bare boobage, or even a too-old kid breastfeeding is hardly… titillating (couldn’t resist) for HBO. And the Adam Sandler movie was a movie. You know. Like when you go to the theater and people won’t shut up or stop texting for two hours? HBO. Movie Theater. Apples and Oranges.
FWIW, looks like a fake booby to me.
Very much so, and not a silicone implant fake, but a prosthetic costume piece fake. Frankly, I expect better special effects from HBO.
Not seen either scene, not overly concerned with any aspect of it but -
Why would they need to use a prosthesis? Is that for the censors and nannys (he’s not really sucking a boob, its a plastic fake) the actress (that boy’s got TEETH) or for some other law against kids and breasts?
I wouldn’t be surprised if having a young boy not related to you suck on your breast is frowned upon, if not illegal, even on a TV film set. It doesn’t matter if the child considers it sexual or not.
I don;'t doubt that - I just love the idea that “here, have a fake one” somehow solves the problem that the law was meant to prevent. (assuming said law/problem exists).
ETA - aren’t there surrogate breast feeders out there? or is it being filmed that is the issue? Maybe the issue is that the well is dry?
Yes, there are. I can imagine a law that would allow wetnursing but require that actual nursing is taking place, and perhaps stipulating an age limit.