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[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I know they're sisters, but it is interesting just how much they look like Elizabeth Olsen now. I keep mentally separating them because the Olsen twins were child stars who have been out of the spotlight for a long time, while Elizabeth's career didn't really take off until she was an adult.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Child stars who then had a pretty successful brand built around them and now have a combined net worth of around a billion dollars.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure the cost was high, they never had a normal childhood and were undoubtedly exposed to negligent and dangerous adults in the industry. But they'll never want for anything in their lives and neither will their families.

I'm not sure if I should envy them or feel sorry for them.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't envy them at all. They were also exposed to sickos on the internet in the early 2000s who created countdown clocks until they were 18 or publicly fantasized about them while they were underage. It was so gross. That's when we should have learned the internet was not the utopia we thought it would be.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

I mean... I was online in 96 and utopia is not a word that ever crossed my mind. And that was before all the cyberpunk literature I then read.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather be angry than poor in the US.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why not both? Then you can be a maga NPC.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

I'm sure the cost was high... But they'll never want for anything in their lives

Two words: therapy. 😅🤌🏼

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but how many child actors become healthy adults...

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Daniel Radcliff and Emma Watson come to mind. But not much else

[–] vateso5074@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Mostly healthy for Daniel Radcliffe at least. He did develop an alcohol dependency during the later Harry Potter movies that he worked to overcome.

For a lot of celebrities I can only really guess at how well adjusted they are. Sometimes they seem normal until they have some sort of psychotic break and all of the skeletons in their closet come out, and sometimes they just put on a brave face while masking years of abuse and trauma.

At least as far as impressions, there are a few other names I can think of. Zendaya is a former Disney channel kid who seems to be doing well for herself. The Sprouse twins (Suite Life of Zack and Cody) also seem like they developed into normal adults and now just don't spend much time in the spotlight. Kenan Thompson also has a good career as the longest serving cast member on Saturday Night Live, and he started as a child actor for Nickelodeon.

But I have no idea how much of that comes down to luck or just having better support from family (or again maybe just burying some skeletons/trauma). A lot of other child actors who worked alongside the names listed above ended up messed up in one way or another.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I was also thinking about Haley Joel Osment.

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Their careers are financially meaningless to them. IIRC they are both Billionaires.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

...they was babies when i was 11....wtf?..

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I heard copious cigarettes and alcohol. But anorexia wouldn't surprise me.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I loved that Netflix documentary they were in several years back called The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I, being bad at faces... And apparently names ... Didn't realize that the non-twin was the Scarlet Witch until my wife pointed it out.

(It's a good thing I have her. I'm very oblivious.)

edit: -t

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 20 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile, I fear the truth behind the look is even darker and more disturbing.

[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip 20 points 10 months ago

One is worried she will not reach the toilet on time, the other already knows it is too late.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I get that they're wealthy and all, but I don't like that they mostly stay away from the spotlight and people still make fun of their appearance.

[–] Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Left knows how, right knows when.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Right fucks me to death in approximately six seconds.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 9 points 10 months ago

To me sound more like one is the CAPS LOCK version of the other one.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Two scarlet witches are better than one

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

They are 2/3 of the future seeing machine from Minority Report.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Hail, Thane of Cawdor.

[–] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I can already see/smell the low-ceiling foggy hut full of reagents where they live deep in the woods

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Theta because one of them is about to do it.