Plus: The Queen That Never Was
A few weeks after Hayden Panettiere died at the heartbreakingly young age of 36, Alison Pill published a searing op-ed in The New York Times titled “I Was a Child Actor. No One Deserves That Fate.” In it, Pill elegantly articulates the truth about what happens when kids act professionally: that while far too many wind up dying far too prematurely, even the ones who are set up to succeed (with loving parents, financial security, on-set support systems, a burning and internally motivated desire to perform) still grow up to become adults who feel they were taken advantage of. Which made me wonder: What could Hollywood actually do to solve this problem, one that’s plagued the industry literally since its start? I tried to find out by talking to Pill and other former child actors—Mara Wilson, Alex Winter, Christy Carlson Romano, and Alyssa Milano—as well as a woman named Maggie Blake, an ex-kid actor herself who now works as a designated child safety and well-being consultant on film and TV sets. She makes a good case for why sets should start employing consultants like her on any set where kids have been cast. After all, says Blake, “We have intimacy coordinators. We have stunt directors for adults. And yet the most vulnerable population that is working on sets has no one.”
Elsewhere, Max Adler checks back in on Nithya Raman ahead of LA’s mayoral election, and also chats with Sacha Baron Cohen about releasing the other cringey, quasi-doc about notorious public figures doing unbelievable things on camera currently in theaters. More tomorrow!
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HILLARY BUSIS
FEATURES EDITOR
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Young stars have been suffering for decades. A panel of former child actors like Alison Pill and Mara Wilson has ideas for what might actually help them. Read more
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HOLLYWOOD
By Maxwell Adler
The former collaborators made two wildly different films that arrive at the same bleak conclusion: Our country has become a place where shamelessness is rewarded. Vanity Fair talked with Baron Cohen about his relationship with Fielder and his realization that the behavior he specialized in exposing is now commonplace. Read more
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ROYALS
By Eva Wolchover
The rediscovery of a long-forgotten portrait thrusts Arbella’s astonishing story to the forefront of Tudor and Elizabethan history. Read more
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By Maxwell Adler
In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Nithya Raman shares new details about her dramatic break with Karen Bass, reflects on her strained ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, and explains what she has in common with Spencer Pratt. Read more
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Take a peek inside the Jack Shainman Gallery’s show “Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror,” featuring images by Parks—and words of praise from Anderson Cooper, Isabella Rossellini, and more.
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