Most offers of representation are legitimate. Before you reply, take a day and ask one thing: how do you get paid, and can I see that in writing?
A clear answer is a good sign. Free Roadmap: https://t.co/MaLbqVBTFD
Educational, not legal/financial advice.
Former child actor here. Ask me what parents get wrong (or right).
I'll answer the best questions in next week's posts.
Not sure where to start yourself? 5-question quiz: https://t.co/jz2EgBmTVq
2/ Money that should have been protected. Several U.S. states (plus Ontario and BC) have trust-account rules for a working kid's earnings. Learn yours before the first paycheque, not after.
1/ I was a working child actor for a decade. My family got some things right by instinct, and three things badly wrong. A short thread for parents just starting out. 🧵
Most agent offers are legit.
One rule stands on its own: an unexplained upfront fee = walk away.
One other red flag? Pause and ask. Several? Walk away.
Free 5-question quiz: https://t.co/jz2EgBmTVq
Educational, not legal/financial advice.
#StageParent
The silence after the roles slow down. Nobody warned my parents about it.
If I could tell them one thing: talk about the quiet before it comes. It's normal. It isn't failure.
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#StageParent
Plain wall. Natural light. Done.
Your kid faces the window (never back to it), stands about a metre off a neutral wall, and the phone goes sideways.
That's the core of a clean self-tape setup, and you already own all of it.
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Self-tape setup you already own:
• phone, sideways (landscape)
• kid faces the window, never back to it
• plain wall ~1 m behind
• fridge off (then back on)
Casting judges the performance, not the gear.
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#SelfTape
Child actor to stage-parent guide, the honest version:
First role at 5. Working for a decade. A supporting role in a franchise by 14.
From the outside it looked perfect. From the inside, nobody was teaching my parents anything.
That's why I built this. Free Roadmap in my bio.
I was in X-Men and three Twilight films. My parents had no playbook.
We got some things right by instinct, and some badly wrong. I'm sharing all of it.
Start here (free): https://t.co/lUJUZChcIg
#StageParent
@therealcliffyb Doing great thanks! Hope you and the lady are as well! That Rayquaza costume is sickkkkk. Still have karaoke with dudehugetank on the bucket list so will be on my way down south soon enough!
If AI makes us dramatically more productive but somehow we end up working even more, we missed the point.
We're human.
Some days you don't have every answer.
I'd rather use AI to create more space for people, not just squeeze more output out of them.
@RAtheRuggedMan Ehhh brotherrrrr
But ya, ive legit seen it firsthand with actors ive worked with that are scrutinized and shit talked and then the day they pass all the same idiots start praising their work and saying theyll miss them. People are retahded
Here is my three-hour conversation with @cameronbright an actor, filmmaker and founder who inspired hundreds of millions of people through his creative contributions.
Cameron began acting as a child and rose to international prominence through standout performances in films such as The Butterfly Effect, Birth alongside Nicole Kidman, and Thank You for Smoking with Aaron Eckhart.
He later appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand with Hugh Jackman and in The Twilight Saga, establishing himself as one of the defining young actors of his generation. Through his art, Cameron has reached hundreds of millions of people around the world.
In our convo spoke about his extraordinary journey, what he learned from working alongside some of Hollywood’s most prominent actors, the darker side of fame, the evolution of crypto, and what it means to think like a true visionary.
Since LinkedIn is now 60% AI slop and 40% human slop, and while YouTube increasingly punishes anyone who steps outside the approved consensus, we will also publish Alexandrians here on X and on our own platform https://t.co/NxKD9RYwal
Info for the show:
Alexandrians with Daniel Karim is a show where we interview both living and dead authors through AI.
I use “author” in its original sense from latin aucturem: founder, maker, originator, or father of things.
The show features Socratic and sovereign thinkers, persecuted authors, unicorn founders, dissidents, revolutionaries and time witnesses who did extraordinary creative work and risked something in the process.
Cameron Bright was one of the first guests.
Happy to announce that we are starting posting again, and that the next guests include great ghosts of the past as well as living luminaries of the present.
Enjoy the conversation below.
@MrsViolence I believe it has to do with the grains and barrels used, like how "canadian" whiskey is made with rye and so on. So one could have a whiskey bourbon by mixing blends or using various grains and such