Demi Lovato reveals the horrors of being young and famous in 'Child Star'
Child Star, a new documentary on youth celebrity made by Demi Lovato and Nicola Marsh, begins with a confession. Lovato, one of today's most open and frank celebrities, recalls watching a Shirley Temple movie on television at her great-grandparents' house and deciding her future: "I wanted to be the youngest and the best at what I do." Demi Lovato. Emma McIntyre/Getty That emotion, shared by young actors and young individuals aspiring to work in any field, is the monkey's paw that wraps around Child Star (whose title alludes to the 2001 film Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story). The film eventually provides a forum for a number of actors—some of whom are famed for how fresh-faced they were when they first began out—to express how that phenomena can profoundly affect a person's vision of the world and their role in it. The majority of the Hulu video, which launches Sept. 17, is made up of rather intimate discussions between Lovato and her subjects,...