{"id":587523,"date":"2026-09-02T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587523\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:08:09","slug":"dylan-sprouse-calls-child-acting-child-labor-compares-to-coal-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587523\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Sprouse Calls Child Acting \u201cChild Labor,\u201d Compares to \u201cCoal Mines\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For his part, Dylan\u2019s brother Cole has also shared insight into their unconventional childhood, explaining their mom put them into acting for financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s two types of kids within the child acting business,\u201d he said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YxvXt7wn89M&amp;pp=ygUbQ29sZSBzcHJvdXNlIGNhbGwgaGVyIGRhZGR5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call Her Daddy<\/a> podcast in 2023. \u201cThere\u2019s the &#8216;thespian children&#8217; who choose to do it, and then there\u2019s the working class kids that, in our case at least\u2026 I mean it started, really, as a means to put bread on the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Cole and Dylan\u2019s dad was granted full custody of them at 10 years old, the pair\u2019s career was re-evaluated and actually became \u201ca huge boon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the time my brother and I got to the Disney Channel, we were good,\u201d Cole continued. &#8220;It was in many ways a life-saving show. It provided us with an amount of stability and consistency, and routine, that really was needed for my brother and I at the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Riverdale actor has kinder eyes for his childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t regret it at all,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I know that there\u2019s definitely resentment, there\u2019s definitely some things I have to work through, but no. If I were given the same choice again, I\u2019d probably do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about other child stars and what they\u2019re up to today, keep reading\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For his part, Dylan\u2019s brother Cole has also shared insight into their unconventional childhood, explaining their mom put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-587523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587523","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=587523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}