What? They couldn't find a thin asian actress??
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I feel bad for child actors, it's why I prefer anime and animation for stories that include children over live action.
Why? Because it'd extremely rare a child actor has the talent that can match up to a seasoned adult actor and even harder if you're trying to find a child actor that looks like the character you envision.
They fail to match up in any way, and they suffer the kind of backlash they have no experience to cope with, remember Anakin from phantom menace? From the look of it by comparison they cast Ozai quite well.
So since this is going to be a dumpster fire, unfortunately her career is probably already over, as she was cast for the wrong role in appearance alone.
I also can't help but feel it's not good for kids' mental health to be forced to act out traumatic and awful things.
Call me "but think of the children", but we are totally accepting of the fact that certain roles are emotionally difficult and demanding for adults. Yet we chuck in kids into stories about genocide and shit? Horror movies?
don't undersell yourself, you're objectively correct, just look at "Elliot" Page who was in Hard Candy
even mild movies break them (to a smaller extent, but still), look at Macaulay Culkin or Shia LaBeouf
They can break adults, see Heath Ledger when shooting TDK, so what hope do others have?
Sadly I don't think Hard Candy is what broke Ellen Page, she probably was assaulted multiple times in the Hollywood backrooms.
I remember a story I read a long while ago when she was at her peak about a fan who met her at like a meet & greet and she was visibly shaken and recoiled when any of the male fans came to meet her. It wasn't a "I'm better than you" thing more the response you'd expect from an assault victim.
I don't think the roles are nearly as traumatic as the actual rape that goes on in Hollywood. I wouldn't let my children go anywhere near showbiz if I had any.
Ah, I see, we have another raging lunatic here who just showed up to screech like an absolute fucking monkey.
You can tell by their handshake icon.
She's not even a child actress. The actress that plays Azula is a slightly overweight 21 year old in this live action.
There's no shortage of skinny 21 year old Asian chicks that can pass for younger.
Then she killed her career early anyway, I just thought she was younger from the thrumpy look like some girls have just before puberty and then after thin out.
The only age-reliant plot points are the Water Tribe's, really.
Aang's story can just be they test and confirm the Avatar at 16 or somewhere instead of as a child. They're ascetics so you don't need to shoehorn in any childhood romances or experience, he can still be "innocent" to those things given his harsh monk upbringing.
Zuko and Azula can just be... older. If anything, Zuko should have been older in the first place, given his relations with Mai.
The water tribe, though, they'd need to explain why Katara isn't pregnant and continuing their very thinned bender bloodline, and why Sokka, son the the lead hunter, is so free to go off and do as he wishes. Do those two plot elements, and yeah, Avatar can be basically moved 1:1 up 10 years of age for everyone.