{"id":576739,"date":"2026-08-22T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576739\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:20:09","slug":"nz-actress-anna-paquin-salutes-fellow-child-star-hayden-panettiere-calls-out-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576739\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ actress Anna Paquin salutes fellow child star Hayden Panettiere, calls out Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cRIP HP (Hayden Panettiere), MT (Michelle Trachtenberg)<\/a>, DC (Daveigh Chase)<\/a> and too many others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a strange small club we belong to and you are worthy of support no matter how our industry made us feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Canadian-KiwiCanadian-Kiwi actress Anna Paquin and fellow True Blood actor, now her husband, Stephen Boyer. Photo \/ File <\/p>\n

Former child star Daveigh Chase, famous for her role in The Ring and as the voice of Lilo in Disney\u2019s Lilo & Stitch, died from Aids in June, aged 35.<\/p>\n

In later years, Chase struggled with substance abuse. She was said to have developed sepsis linked to a bout of meningitis and was admitted to hospital for malnutrition before her death.<\/p>\n

\"HaydenHayden Panettiere plays Channing Walsh in the 2005 movie Racing Stripes.<\/p>\n

Panettiere was just shy of her first birthday when she made her first onscreen appearance for a Playskool toy commercial. She broke out as a child star in the Disney film Remember the Titans, in 2000, where she played Sheryl Yoast, the football-obsessed daughter of coach Bill Yoast.<\/p>\n

She went on to play several roles in shows, including on Ally McBeal, Racing Stripes, Malcolm in the Middle and Bring It On: All or Nothing – all before she turned 18.<\/p>\n

\u2018Let\u2019s have each other\u2019s backs\u2019<\/p>\n

Months before her death, the 36-year-old spoke about the challenges of her life in the spotlight and specifically being a child actor.<\/p>\n

\"AnnaAnna Paquin accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1994. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Her recently published memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, reportedly shares stories about her battle with mental health and struggles with substance abuse.<\/p>\n

She also wrote about the traumatic storylines she played in soap operas and how that led her to link catastrophe with adoration, as she described it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it any wonder why I\u2019ve faced so many real struggles in my life? I\u2019ve often wondered whether, unintentionally, I\u2019ve brought on my traumas because I\u2019m wired to think they\u2019re good for me,\u201d Panettiere wrote in her book.<\/p>\n

Paquin also starred in several films and shows as a child, including in the 1993 film The Piano and Fly Away Home. She went on to star in the blockbuster X-Men movie series and one of her most famous roles as Sookie Stackhouse in TV show True Blood.<\/p>\n

At 11 years old, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano. She later appeared alongside Panettiere on the 2011 film Scream 4.<\/p>\n

Paquin called on fellow actors to \u201chave each other\u2019s backs\u201d and to not be afraid to reach out to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiterally DM (direct message) me. I believe you and I will stand by your side. You aren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s have each other\u2019s backs. It might make public disclosure less terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRIP HP (Hayden Panettiere), MT (Michelle Trachtenberg), DC (Daveigh Chase) and too many others. \u201cIt\u2019s a strange small…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6946,6876,5845,115,2511,283952,634,15166,156,29052,2740,305,63787,4223,32763,194,6804,5829,111,139,69,3111,224853,281766,283950,283951,2687,41401,2737,5436,1361,2766,90011,4741],"class_list":["post-576739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actors","tag-actress","tag-anna","tag-calls","tag-child","tag-coincidence","tag-death","tag-deaths","tag-entertainment","tag-fellow","tag-former","tag-have","tag-hayden","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywoods","tag-kiwi","tag-light","tag-many","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-panettiere","tag-panettieres","tag-paquin","tag-salutes","tag-saying","tag-slammed","tag-star","tag-stars","tag-that","tag-treatment","tag-untimely","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}