“Alfred Hitchcock once described actors as cattle. 'That would make child actors veal,' said Mara Wilson, star of the 1996 film 'Matilda.'”
—Why do so many child actors “lose it” as young adults? Recently, Nickelodeon’s ’90s sensation Amanda Bynes wrapped herself up in a media and police frenzy, similar to actress Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears (circa 2007).
Listen to Wilson on the pressures of child stardom and read the rest from Talk of the Nation.
