Anyone get their kids into acting/modeling. Any advice? My 8 year old son has been doing community theater and improv locally. We had a talent agent reach out. It mostly doesn’t seem like a scam :) I guess some other folks have been. “Discovered” over the years and a few of them have been in commercials or print catalogs and things. The boy seems to be into it and is willing to put in the work.

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Only do it if they are truly into it. Mine did it for a bit and then got bored of it. Lot of work for the parent aswell, outside of dealing with agent, Coogan account set up. You have you take them everywhere any day of the week, arrange for their school work package for the days they are on location. Don’t want to put you off, but you and the child need to be ready for the commitment. Good luck with it all

Thanks for the response. Just curious how much did they end up doing / earning over what period of time?

Rate depended on the gig, but to give you a sense of numbers it was between 1400 and 1800 per day (circa 6 hours, due to mandatory breaks) for commercials. Stills/photos were a little less. This was 4 years ago, so the rates may be higher now

$1800 a day 4 yr back thats crazy i guess i am in wrong career

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Seriously. That’s great. Is that after the agent fees?

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Important to remember the kid is 8 and doesn’t know much yet. I’d say let the kid be a kid as this can take a toll on their emotional well being in the long run

So true. It’s a lot to put on a young mind and if they get a lot of gigs it does get disruptive to a ‘normal’ life, or at least one similar to their friends.

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