10+ Strange Facts About Child Actors Fans Didn't Know

Hollywood is already difficult enough to navigate, so for a child, it is twice as difficult!

That is especially true for these child actors! Here are some strange facts that you may not have known about them!

Where were her parents??

Her older boyfriend was Rick Springfield, singer of the hit song "Jessie's Girl." In his autobiography, Late, Late At Night, Rick detailed their relationship.

"We’re actually really shocked by the incensed articles in both teen and regular press about our affair."

She hadn't known that her mother was sick.

"She was so resilient and so strong, and that was what she prided herself on, and there was a lot of help from the people there."

"The DeVitos were definitely very helpful, everyone there, our studio teacher Richard [Wicklund]. Everyone on set gathered around me and took care of me."

Joe revealed these strict rules he had to follow in an essay for Vulture.

"I had to shave every day because they wanted me to pretend like I was 16 when I was 20," he wrote.

We don't even want to think of Zendaya being anything but the star, but that was the case when she was just starting out.

"Ross [Lynch] was in it, Leo Howard was in it — and we were backup dancers, we weren't even the lead kids," she told J-14 Magazine in 2013.

She was only 11.

The tragedy was labeled a murder-suicide initiated by her father, who also killed Judith's mother, Maria.

Authorities said that he set fire to the family’s home before taking his own life.

“Once Disney was over, I was like, ‘Oh, [expletive],’” Gomez told W magazine.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to be. I had to learn to be myself.”

She thought that the video was so hot and even channeled this type of energy during her first solo tour.

This included everything from the costumes she wore to the overall performance.

This stemmed from allegations that her mother, Chrisoula Workman, emotionally and physically abused her.

This led her 37-year-old sister, Shanelle Gray, to become her guardian.

"Nobody controls you anymore," Winter said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

"You handle your own business affairs, your own living arrangements, your own money. Everything is sort of in your own hands."

That's because she had to be away from school for five months to film.

“My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a ‘non-traditional’ student. So, during filming, they kicked me out," she shared on her blog.

This was the norm for any child actor back in the old Hollywood days.

"So far as I can tell, the black box did no lasting damage to my psyche," child actress Shirley Temple once said about what was called the "black box."

"I get very critical of myself," she told Thrillist.

"In fact, Matilda is kind of an oddity because I do like watching it. Or I like watching it more than some of the others, because I feel proud of how I did in it."

When she was on Conan O'Brien's show, she even creeped him out with it.

“I make this baby voice that really freaks out my friends and my boyfriend [Levi Meaden] all the time," she said.

On the show, she said, “I’m just a little baby. I’m just your little baby girl,” to which O’Brien laughed hysterically.

This voice came in handy when she voiced Sofia the First on the Disney Channel.

“I could visualize my dog, bloody from that one awful shot,” Cooper wrote in his memoir, Please Don’t Shoot My Dog.

“I began sobbing, so hysterically that it was almost too much for the scene."

"This is really gross, [but] I'm going to tell you anyway," DeVito said on the 2005 DVD Documentary.

"We made him stuff his face, but then I would cut the camera [and] he would spit it out!"

“He hated it and no one knew that until it was too late,” Pam Ferris, who played Miss Trunchbull, revealed to RadioTimes.

"If everybody had known they would’ve made it savoury or something that he could eat. It was hard on him, poor little devil.”

But the opening skit of the show was also prom-themed!

So, in a way, it was like they had gone to prom all along. If you can't go to prom, bring the prom to you!

In case you were wondering, this happened inside the doghouse.

There were a lot of secret love affairs going on! Eve Plumb also had a crush on Chris Knight, and it is said that they even hooked up!

Boo was played by Mary Gibbs — the daughter of Rob Gibbs, the storyboard artist.

Since she was two, they had to record words she said while she was playing on set since she couldn't record lines like the rest of the actors.

He was so good in his audition that Spielberg wanted him right away.

At the end of the audition, Spielberg told him, "Okay kid, you got the job." That's quite the compliment if you ask me.

Keep in mind, she was only 16 at the time of her casting.

She was put on a diet and given pills to keep her thin, and it definitely didn't help that she was working extremely long hours.

"I think it got harder when I started touring as both — I toured as Hannah Montana and as myself," she told CBS This Morning. "I think that's probably what's a little bit wrong with me now!"

"I liked being in the Disney universe because I didn’t know anything else. I knew I was getting to live what I wanted to do."

He had a very bad relationship with his father and grew up around a lot of the toxicity that came with Hollywood.

Thankfully, he was able to work through some of his trauma through therapy.

Since they were babies, they obviously cried a lot. But apparently, it was so bad that they were almost fired from the show.

Thankfully, in the end, it worked out and allowed them to skyrocket to fame.

However, she has said that being a good mother has nothing to do with age.

Some fans were mostly upset because her pregnancy caused her show to get canceled.

Or were you quite surprised by all the facts on this list?

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