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When Did Child Actors Become Amazing?

Okay is this just me, or in the past few years child actors have started to become amazing?  Given between tv and film, we have Stranger Things, IT (2017), Logan (Laura, Logans daughter), and more to come I am sure.
In the past though child actors had a bad reputation in film. We have all seen a movie with an annoying kid, and the kid actor was cast to be the annoying character. Which is kind of sad if you think about it.
Sure there were some good child actors in the past, but it seems more recently that we have been getting better and better child actors. So why is this?
I think that people are just getting tired of the annoying kid and they want to watch the adventurous kid instead. The kid that can act like an adult but yet remains childish. In a way it's almost like there's a balance that needs to be reached.
So why haven't child actors been respected as much as they have now? I think it's because that the major studios viewed it as to risky. It is safer to play something that worked in the past, but we know that the kids that are on screen is not how most kids usually act. Yet now the child actors of today are being placed in roles that better portray who a kid is. This is a great leap forward and I believe that this shows growing respect for these kids.
There are some problems I do have with the rise of child actors. It's not the actors themselves, but how people will treat them, to many they are now celebrities, but we have to remember that they are still kids themselves, and we should respect them enough to leave them alone as kids and not force them into adult gossip. People who do this to these child actors are very petty to do so. I understand that they will do promotional stuff for their film/show and that's all good, I just want to say that we should have a standard of respect on how we treat them.
As all trends in entertainment, I do think that this one is a little bit overdue but at least it is finally happening. I applaud the performances of these child actors for the great work that they do and I wish them well in there future endeavors.

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