{"id":141133,"date":"2025-11-15T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141133\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:46:11","slug":"stars-in-their-eyes-if-a-parent-wants-the-child-to-do-this-and-the-childs-not-interested-theres-absolutely-no-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141133\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars in their eyes: \u2018If a parent wants the child to do this and the child\u2019s not interested, there\u2019s absolutely no point\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom jetsetting abroad and working with Hollywood A-listers to rejection, tears and long days on set, we step into the world of Ireland\u2019s child actors and the parents supporting their dreams\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some of Ireland's top actors as child stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/418cad12-3e6c-44e5-a165-63bac65ad082.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Some of Ireland&#8217;s top actors as child stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s long been said that Ireland punches well above its weight when it comes to producing acting talent \u2013 and when it comes to creating child actors, we certainly have stellar form. Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Bolger, Alisha Weir, Andrew Scott, Evanna Lynch and Jack Gleeson\u2026 all got their start in the industry at a young age, and have gone on to enjoy lasting, substantial careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Behind every child actor, there often lies a supportive and encouraging family, yet the cliches remain: that the parents of child actors are attempting to live out their unfulfilled dreams via their children, or that they push them into the industry to live vicariously through them. According to Maureen Ward, owner of Talented Kids Performing Arts School and MVW Talent Agency Ireland, the reality couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From jetsetting abroad and working with Hollywood A-listers to rejection, tears and long days on set, we step&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12271],"class_list":["post-141133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tanya-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}