Timeline for How are child actors allowed to work in series like The Walking Dead when they’re younger than the legal age-rating?
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 22:27 | comment | added | Quasi_Stomach | I think there might be some confusion as to what the child actor actually sees. When the producers are careful about protecting the welfare of the child, they will often physically remove the child from the set/take/whatever, and cut it to look like the child is there. I notice this a lot with scenes where a very young child is exposed to explicit sex/violence/language, etc, and they cut back and forth from the possibly offensive scene to the child watching, and the scene and the child are never even together. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1100863314937155598 | ||
| Feb 27, 2019 at 18:00 | answer | added | Kevin Workman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 13:41 | comment | added | Kai | You'd be shocked by how many very young watchers of The Walking Dead there are. I've attended a Walking Dead panel at a convention where a very large percentage of the people asking questions were young children. If they can watch it and not be harmed, certainly the actors can act in it without harm, as I would expect acting would honestly feel less real, when they constantly start and stop filming, no special effects can be seen, and you can see backstage cameras and lighting and so forth. Even costumes and makeup tend to not stand up to scrutiny in real life as well as they do on film. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 5:48 | history | edited | Buzz |
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 5:18 | answer | added | Keith Morrison | timeline score: 20 | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 5:07 | answer | added | Todd Wilcox | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 5:05 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | There are TV and movie ratings in the US, but they are voluntarily chosen and there are no laws related to content ratings in the US. Meaning that a TV show might be rated for 18+ in the US, but there’s nothing illegal about an eight year old watching it. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 3:36 | comment | added | James Peliby | @jwodder Thanks for your reply! Interesting point, and apologies for the confusion. In the UK it is rated 18, so I just assumed the same applied in the US. However my point is still valid, but can be expressed differently: how are child actors allowed to work in a series that they’re too young to even watch according to the shows advisory age rating, set by the very company that hire such actors! | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 3:32 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | @jwodder in theory, a prosecutor could try to base a prosecution for child endangerment on exposure to a certain film or TV show, but the show's ratings (not having a basis in law) wouldn't be dispositive - rather there would need to be a specific showing of how the particular program caused certain specified harms, probably validated by child psychologists testifying as expert witnesses. It could be done, but it would be a lot more than "Suzie is 12, that show is 14+ !!11!11one". | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 3:28 | comment | added | jwodder | I'm quite certain there are no laws (in the US, at least) about who can watch The Walking Dead. Rather, the network publishes standardized guidelines about who should watch it. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 3:27 | comment | added | Möoz | Related Movies & TV question: movies.stackexchange.com/questions/604/… | |
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