The “ And I think, I mean they didn’t know” is not referring to the kids not knowing that they were playing a game. It was referring to the kids not knowing that it was an audition for a role in a movie.

You appear to be literally incapable of reading.

How on earth does the longer quote make it better?

Except... the children were told, according to the transcript, they were playing a game. And they were told to lie. That’s exactly what improv and acting in general are: lying games. They KNEW it was an audition. There was a camera. They were told it was a game. They were told to lie about having the money or the…

Even the language here is dehumanizing! It makes them sounds like sheep! Dude!

And the full transcript is clearly different from the Vanity Fair summary. Now I do think this was on accident and perhaps the Vanity Fair author doesn’t realize how what they intended to write and what they actually wrote significantly change the presentation of the process. But VF editors have no excuse, especially…

I don’t like this. I think it’s very possible that you’re underestimating the intelligence of the children.

This entire thing is stupid. How exactly do people think children audition for movies? And what the fuck is wrong with people that they think “make-believe” is an exclusively first-world thing?!

They’re kids! They don’t have the same grasp on complex emotional matters that adults do!

This is how you cast non-actor children. You set up a “let’s pretend” game and see what their natural reaction is. This also happens with adult actors - I was once in an audition when I was supposed to act out being on a plane mid-hijack by Islamic terrorists. It was improv, they just wanted to see how we would…

Yea the transcript above made it pretty clear that they were acting out a scenario, not that they just gave it and took it away.

Yeah I thought she came off better in the full transcript than she did in either her own statement or the initial profile.

The child they ended up casting was what, eleven when they cast her? That’s a fifth grader. 100% that child was fully capable of understanding the situation as a camera test/improv scenario. Children are not nearly as stupid as people on here seem to believe. Especially when it comes to the basic concept of…

I mean, it’s pretty clear that there was a camera involved during this. As in, it was a type of camera test, and part of what they were looking for was a kid who could perform (in this case, tell a lie, as directed—though what kind of lie was unspecified), without either freezing up before the camera, or looking…

But surely the kids are aware that it’s a game and they are not having money taken away for real...almost seems like an insult to their intelligence to suggest they wouldn’t get it. Just a thought.

She also has a track record of losing and/or killing pets after the novelty wears off. Don’t get too starry eyes over the mini-Pom.

I don’t think the interview transcript contradicts Angelina Jolie’s account at all. The transcription has her quoting the person running the audition giving the rules of the game to the children, including that they’re going catch them taking the money (or cookie) and the kids should try to lie to them. It’s right in…

The fact that he’s nearly 30 and bullying a teenaged girl on twitter makes the whole thing even more despicable. Fuck him. And fuck TLC for continuing to give that awful family a platform.

Hm. Based on the transcript, I think Vanity Fair did mischaracterize what she said. The magazine made it sound like the children had no idea what was going on, but the direct quote says that the casting directors told the children upfront that they were going to play a game where they would be given something to take…

What an asshole Derek Dillard is. Jazz and her family are so fucking delightful. Dillard could learn some shit from watching her show.