I think acting is one of the professions where gender actually matters. When a doctor operates on you, it doesn’t matter whether they are male or female, and it doesn’t matter whether the person serving your food in a restaurant is male or female so waiter/waitress is also irrelevant to the job they are doing.
But with acting, the majority of time people will only audition and play roles that are of their gender. It doesn’t matter to the public, but for agents and casting directors, whether the person being put forward for a role is male/female (or presents themselves as such if not using their birth gender) is very relevant. Hosanna is playing the girl in the play, if she were male it’s unlikely she would have been seen for that part. I don’t see any reason for them not use ‘actress’, if Hosanna’s intention is to only play female parts.
I am a little confused, the other their part meant being away from home, but this one doesn’t? So who is driving Hosanna to abs from central London 6 days a week. Won’t she need a chaperone and tutor?
Good luck to Hosanna, but I do feel concerned that, same as per the other children, that fulfilling their parent’s career ambitions is being vastly prioritised over proving a basic education. Not being at school has meant that the kids are able to pursue spending the majority of their time on football/acting etc, plus made them available for every opportunity to make money from it. This means that for their age group, they are likely advanced in these performing roles, but that could just be because their contemporaries have to balance other things (such as schooling) alongside it. Once they reach an age where their contemporaries are focussing all their time on their chosen career, whether they are ‘good enough’ to make it as professionals will then be tested.
I don’t think we can judge whether these kids are especially talented as it’s not a level playing field, but until they are into their late teens. When Heze’s contemporaries leave education and can devote themselves to 12 hours a day practice as per he does, they may then overtake him in ability. It’s Heze in particular I feel sorry for, good luck to him if he makes it as a pro footballer…but the percentage from the academies that do so is very small, yet no other course in life is open to him so he will be totally lost if he doesn’t succeed.
But with acting, the majority of time people will only audition and play roles that are of their gender. It doesn’t matter to the public, but for agents and casting directors, whether the person being put forward for a role is male/female (or presents themselves as such if not using their birth gender) is very relevant. Hosanna is playing the girl in the play, if she were male it’s unlikely she would have been seen for that part. I don’t see any reason for them not use ‘actress’, if Hosanna’s intention is to only play female parts.
I am a little confused, the other their part meant being away from home, but this one doesn’t? So who is driving Hosanna to abs from central London 6 days a week. Won’t she need a chaperone and tutor?
Good luck to Hosanna, but I do feel concerned that, same as per the other children, that fulfilling their parent’s career ambitions is being vastly prioritised over proving a basic education. Not being at school has meant that the kids are able to pursue spending the majority of their time on football/acting etc, plus made them available for every opportunity to make money from it. This means that for their age group, they are likely advanced in these performing roles, but that could just be because their contemporaries have to balance other things (such as schooling) alongside it. Once they reach an age where their contemporaries are focussing all their time on their chosen career, whether they are ‘good enough’ to make it as professionals will then be tested.
I don’t think we can judge whether these kids are especially talented as it’s not a level playing field, but until they are into their late teens. When Heze’s contemporaries leave education and can devote themselves to 12 hours a day practice as per he does, they may then overtake him in ability. It’s Heze in particular I feel sorry for, good luck to him if he makes it as a pro footballer…but the percentage from the academies that do so is very small, yet no other course in life is open to him so he will be totally lost if he doesn’t succeed.
. I guess since there is no home schooling Ella doesn’t feel they need a good nights sleep 