Child Star
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This Hulu documentary, directed and produced by Demi Lovato, explores the highs and lows of growing up in the spotlight through the lens of some of the world's most famous former child stars. Through celebrity interviews, including Drew Barrymore, Christina Ricci, Keenan Thompson and Alyson Stoner, verité scenes, and archival footage, this film deconstructs the stages of early stardom and looks at the entertainment system over the last century, including recent laws to help protect child social media influencers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about |
| 0:08.2 | popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. My name is Brooke Brigham. I'm the |
| 0:13.4 | attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And today we're here to talk about a |
| 0:18.5 | documentary called Child Star. |
| 0:27.2 | This is currently playing on Hulu, and it was produced and directed by Demi Lovato. |
| 0:36.3 | And so she, of course, started as a child star in Hollywood on the Disney Channel. |
| 0:41.6 | And so a lot of this is about her experience, |
| 0:43.9 | but then she brings in other people. |
| 0:47.7 | She brings in other Disney people that she worked with, |
| 0:51.7 | Nickelodeon people, child star. |
| 0:54.0 | You will know all of these people. Yeah. And then she also brings in |
| 0:57.5 | Drew Barrymore and Christina Ritchie, who were also child stars of a different era. And that was |
| 1:06.1 | very interesting. Yeah, that was interesting. It really was. This is actually a really interesting documentary and, you know, very eye-opening because, I mean, we all know the horror stories of, you know, things that happen to child actors, but there are some people who survive, you know, Demi Lovato, I was surprised. I went and I looked at her |
| 1:29.8 | Wikipedia. She's way more accomplished than I think people understand. I mean, she's sold over |
| 1:37.2 | 40 million albums. She's been, she's, she has a lot of albums. I mean, between 15 and 20 albums. |
| 1:45.9 | She's, you know, toured. |
| 1:49.0 | She's acted. |
| 1:52.3 | She's very much a philanthropist, and she's gotten political lately. |
| 1:58.7 | We'll get to, she worked with Governor Gavin Newsom |
| 2:02.7 | to get some new laws passed in California |
| 2:06.4 | to help protect children |
| 2:08.6 | who are on social media. |
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