My, how you’ve grown
Showmax is filled with child actors who’re rocking it as adult stars.
Child actors go one of two ways: They either fade into obscurity or they become famous grown-up stars. Showmax has a couple of movies, series and doccies that’ll have you reminiscing about the time the lead stars where knee high to grasshoppers and still had their milk teeth. Like…
YELLOWJACKETS
The limited series (it’s actually been renewed for a second season – go figure) features two very well-known mega famous actresses who’ve been in the acting game longer than most of their co-stars have been alive.
Juliette Lewis has worked in Hollywood since the age of 12 as Lexie in sci-fi film My Stepmother Is An Alien, and Christina Ricci has been doing the movie scene since she was eight (she’s best known as Wednesday Addams in the comedy horror Addams Family films). They play Natalie and Misty in Yellowjackets and there’s something horrible that connects the pair. As teens at high school, they were involved in a plane crash as part of an all-girls soccer team and they were lost in the wilderness, forced to do unspeakable things to survive. Years later and all grown up, they’re still running from their demons and the things they did.
Chloe Grace Moretz started off as an eight-year-old scaring people as Chelsea Lutz in the remake of The Amityville Horror movie, but nowadays she’s been bitten by the comedy bug. She’s on Showmax in the liveaction movie of kids cartoon Tom & Jerry and it’s pretty cute even though it’s more for the kiddies than those of us who watched the cartoon as kids. At least you know she can laugh at herself – besides playing happy-golucky Kayla in Tom & Jerry, she used to date Brooklyn Beckham, you know: Soccer legend David Beckham’s photographer son who hires a team of 50 people helping him make a toasted sarmie for his Instagram account. Plus, Chloe is voicing Wednesday Addams in the animated Addams Family movies.