(May 27, 2018 at 5:21 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I'm pretty sure that the child labor laws do not cover (and I think may be specifically excempt) child actors.
They are most certainly not exempted. There are all kinds of restrictions placed on how long child actors can be on set and what conditions they can be subjected to. It's the biggest reason the Hollywood will do their damndest to hire young looking 20-somethings to play teen parts and young looking teens to play adolescent parts. Ender's Game was kept off the big screen for nearly a decade because of Orson Scott Card's adamant refusal to allow the screen writers to "age" the very young characters so they could get 18+ actors to play the parts. There may be some exceptions to the rules, but Hollywood has to follow essentially the same rules as everyone else regarding child labor.
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