13 child actors who performed better than adults

Many actors study drama for years to be the best in their profession. But sometimes ordinary kids do so well on screen, which begs the question: when did they learn to act and how can they do it that way?

O Incredible.club recalls young actors who played their roles in the films with great maturity.

Kirsten Dunst became famous at age 10 thanks to the role of a vampire girl.

Brad Pitt, one of the film’s leads, said of his co-star: “She’s a girl with the heart and mind of a 30-year-old woman. Talking to her is much more interesting than most adult actresses.”

Perhaps this trait helped Kirsten play an immortal vampire in the body of a 10-year-old girl.

In the film about a man with the mental age of 7, Dakota played his daughter, who often wants to take on the role of an adult.

To be truthful in the sad scenes, the girl was thinking about the death of her favorite goldfish. Because of her efforts, Dakota became the youngest actress nominated for a Las Vegas Society of Film Critics Awards.

Young actor Jamie Bell played a boy who lives amid the conflicts of a mining community in England and loves ballet. In addition to being the protagonist of the film, he had to shoot several dance scenes.

Jamie studied classical dance at school, which was why the other boys laughed at him. But this job helped him to be more professional and better on paper.

As a teenager, Jodie Foster played the role of Iris, a 12-year-old marginal girl. Audiences were impressed with her performance and she was nominated for an Oscar for the film, which helped cement her fame in the film world.

However, to film some scenes, he resorted to the help of a stuntwoman, his sister Connie Foster.

In this film, Justin shared the scene with two great actors: Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep. Undoubtedly, his performance was up to the two veterans. Despite his age, he very realistically conveyed the feelings of a boy who has to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life.

Justin even improvised a famous scene with an ice cream, which was not in the script.

Young actress Quvenzhané Wallis played one of the best female roles of 2012. This leading lady was her film debut and earned her a nomination for many awards, including the Oscars and MTV Movie Awards. Wallis’ career is worth following.

Henry was very convincing in the role of the boy Elliott, who befriends the alien. Particularly impressive is the fact that Henry’s set mate was a puppet who “played” the extraterrestrial, not an actual actor.

When the boy went to audition and acted out the sadness that his character should live, his expression was so real that the director himself, Steven Spielberg, cried and immediately handed Henry the lead role.

At age 11, Thomas Turgoose played the lead role in the film about a boy who gets involved with a group of skinheads.

Some say that Thomas was more convincing than many adult actors. He conveyed emotions masterfully, with the help of facial expressions, intonation and voice timbre. He worked on this difficult film like a true professional.

Actress Tatum O’Neal, 10, wowed critics with her work in the movie “Paper Moon,” in which she and her father play two low-income travelers who roam the country in search of survival.

Tatum became the youngest Oscar winner in history. During filming, she had to smoke fake cigarettes made from lettuce.

In this drama, the two young actors did a great job in partnership. Macaulay Culkin was already a star, which could hardly be said of Elijah Wood. However, no one was indifferent to his performance.

And we must highlight Macaulay’s excellent work as a dramatic actor. Although many criticized his casting for the role, the director stuck to his choice, even though Macaulay’s face was associated exclusively with comedies.

When directors searched for an actress to play Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl who avenges her father’s death, 15,000 hopefuls turned up.

In the end, they opted for the unknown Hailee Steinfeld. And it was not in vain: his screen debut surprised everyone and the film received 10 Oscar nominations.

More than 2,000 candidates auditioned for the role of Mathilda in Luc Besson’s famous film. Among them was Liv Tyler, who was considered too adult for the character.

Natalie Portman, 11, was also dropped at first, as, according to the script, the heroine should have been more mature. But the actress re-tested and acted so brilliantly that the director decided on her.

A few years ago, little Abigail was consecrated for the lead role of “Little Miss Sunshine”. Today, she ranks 8th on the list of the richest young stars in Hollywood, according to Forbes magazine.

Abigail, once again, showed that it is possible to become an excellent actress without having the most beautiful face in the world.