Gordon-Levitt was a veteran actor by the time he starred as Tommy Solomon, a member of an alien fact-finding mission posing as an average human family, on 3rd Rock From the Sun. He wrote in his caption, "I am grateful for the amazing life I have and I hope I can pass on that it DOES get better." Yet he had survived and, he added, "it's amazing how many people peak in their teens."
He started having nightly panic attacks, anticipating the next day's humiliation. "I was told I was a has-been and would never book a job again," he recalled. Sure they aren't studio films or wide releases, but they are in theaters! I am chasing my dreams and I couldn't be happier."īut, he continued, back in the day he was "made fun of relentlessly" by some kids who then, down the road, must have forgotten their bad behavior and shamelessly friended him on Facebook.
"I didn't expect to feel like this, but I do. "I have now made more movies as an adult than I did as a child! This makes me really emotional," he wrote in a note posted on Instagram. In 2017, Lipnicki opened up about the bullying he experienced in middle school, hoping that sharing his experience could lend some comfort to others. He's also a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and in May he joined a group of volunteers providing additional security outside a Los Angeles synagogue amid a local rise in anti-Semitic vandalism and harassment. The same visibility wasn't awaiting him as a young man, but he's still working in showbiz, appearing in movies such as Beware the Lake, Limelight and Broil while also writing and producing short and feature-length films. He went on to plum roles in the Stuart Little films, Doctor Dolittle (voicing Baby Tiger), The Little Vampire and Little Mike, as well as guest-starred on Dawson's Creek, but took a break to have a normal high school experience.
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And here are many more examples of actors who started at a single-digit age, some you still see all the time onscreen, and some you don't.įew 6-year-olds have made splashier movie debuts than Lipnicki, who went toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise in the charm department in Jerry Maguire and got almost as many memorable lines. Making that leap, from adorable child star to grown-up-actor-with-staying-power, isn't easy-and so many have failed to clear the gap. "But," he added, "if you love what you do, you've got to chase that."
"Whether I'm doing big movies like I did in my childhood, or-I've actually done more work as an adult, it's just that the films I've done haven't hit quite as hard as the ones I did as a kid. "I've thought about other career paths, especially during my teenage years, and there's nothing I'd rather do with my life," Lipnicki also said on The Real. He told me to keep creating."Īnd so Lipnicki did, adding writing and producing to his resume while he continued to seek out acting roles. "He's great, and he gave me a lot of great advice. He can make you believe in yourself like nobody else," he told E! News in 2019, referring to none other than Cruise. "I have never worked with anyone with that amount of charisma.