The Dark Truth About Hollywood's Child Actor Problem - Brett Cooper

Chris and Brett Cooper discuss the dark side of childhood actors in Hollywood. What was Brett Cooper's reaction to the 'Quiet On Set' documentary? What was Brett Cooper's experience as a child actor in Hollywood? Why was Brett Cooper's mom so involved in her life in Hollywood?
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[@ChrisWillx]

Hello you savages. Watch the full episode with Brett Cooper here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGScpJhmhLasf9U! Get up to 20% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at livemomentous.com/modernwisdom

[@snakejazz]

Brett absolutely rules. Thanks for having her on your show.

[@Devon.Ambrose]

Oh you SOB! I was like where is the full episode? Great teaser. Already subscribed bruv.

[@mommalou64]

@@ChrisWillx her Peterson talk was really good looking forward to this one

[@anotherjewishsharpnicholas9425]

Careful, you are going to get sued for racial profiling slander. Dan has no accusations against him. He already sued the program.

[@andrewmweisse]

The real narrative here is the importance of a strong mother...would be interested in an interview with her.

[@asakr6696]

Imagine if she had a strong father as well.

[@joe42m13]

Sounds like mom had issues of her own, but they didn't necessarily manifest in a negative way.

[@ch-yq5yn]

*parent

[@MomoSimone22]

​@@joe42m13Everyone has issues of their own.

[@channel1_channel]

At 14 years old around these Hollywood types!!!!! "Strong mother"...😂😂😂. Insanity!

[@scot60]

Brett is so well grounded, smart, savvy and beautiful. Well done to her mom for raising such a great person.

[@SpencerCornelia]

finding out how many pedo's were involved in entertainment media that I probably enjoyed many years ago is fucking up my brain. it's pretty shocking that there aren't more preventative measures in place to help the kids. having a great set of parents seems to be best way to mitigate the risk of kids being victimized.

[@minnesota_fats7344]

It is shocking, but we shouldn't be surprised. As another commenter has said, and to reuse the words of John Dillinger, predators go where the children are. This means you'll find them in the schools, and in the scouts and things like that, in Hollywood working on children's programming, any profession that works with young people and young children You're going to have predators that try for those careers to be around their prey.

[@LukeyBoy82]

Oh well shit happens

[@Angelthedog]

I like the line "it's the men who chose to work with young girls." John Dillinger or some old bank robber was asked why he robbed banks. "That's where the money is."

[@JackHaveman52]

It's women as well. I can give you a list of women, teachers, who've been found guilty of sexual misconduct with students. I even know one. Female predators aren't as well known but they exist and there are more of them that you could imagine. Child predators gravitate to where the children are, including women. Those predators don't all wear trench coats. Some of them wear dresses and have even had children. Trust is important. Blind trust is naive.

[@ivanhughes8699]

The fact that Brett went through that and STILL became the person she is today is of great credit to her. Well done and more power to women like this.

[@markbone]

this is hands down the most beautifully lit podcast on earth. Week after week. This is the peak.

[@thabopitsoo]

Glad you notice this love your documentaries btw you’re a true artist!

[@huricanethreeonesix]

Didn't notice till you said it

[@pauljamesyoung-70]

100% Art design helps as well.

[@Willis2588]

This was one of my first thoughts like 15 seconds in. "Dang they put some good work into this lighting." Made me smile when I saw this comment.

[@ghost9-9ghost]

Kind of sad that aesthetics now takes priorty over substance. I guess thatd our culture.

[@Mike80528]

Brett is lucky. Too many mothers seem to want to live vicariously through their children, with tragic results for the children... (edit: spelling correction)

[@alyzak.8997]

truly! So grateful for my dear mother. Gonna spoil the heck out of her when I'm older xD

[@kochkathryn88]

That's what "sell your soul" means... good on you Brett and good on your mum!!

[@alyzak.8997]

I don't know why people are so malicious towards Brett. She seems like a veyr no nonsense and thoughtful person to me. She is one of the few gen z commentators who aren't woke. Can't wait to listen to the full podcast with this lovely human. Thanks for bringing this important topic to light, Chris!

[@HieronymusBosch229]

I never saw (not even 1) comment malicious about her, ever.

[@Franatomy]

@@alyzak.8997 Very creepy behaviour. You don't know her. Relax.

[@kenko9031]

??????????? ​@@Franatomy

[@alyzak.8997]

@@HieronymusBosch229 I saw plenty and responded to them and the original commentors deleted them which tells you everything

[@alyzak.8997]

@@Franatomy what is even happening xD To say that I admire her and don't hate her is creepy? Ok buddy

[@tombstonevulturecommand]

that last comment of hers, about what is trying to be conveyed and do you agree with it, very proud

[@GUISNIP]

Even as a straight white male, I’ve had tons of negative experiences of the sort described here, and from both men and women in power positions (writers, directors, producers). I rejected them all, and my nascient acting career sputtered to a stand still. I have zero regrets.

[@raykarena4595]

I never knew Brett was a child actor my badd. First became aware of her on her podcast, well done to her mother...

[@robzombie5928]

Predators go where the prey is

[@Rootz2000]

☝️☝️☝️

[@ChrisHops22]

oh shit, what a crossover

[@chasehedges6775]

💯

[@theshotgundog]

Ikr!!!!

[@TimBitts649]

In the 1970s Johnny Carson made a lot of jokes on The Tonight Show, about the Hollywood Casting Couch. Decades later I stumbled on a photo online, of Oprah Winfrey having lunch with her pal Harvey Weinstein. She knew. Then the final puzzle piece, of why the cover-up? I was watching Mel Brooks being interviewed by Jimminy Glick...aka Martin Short. I could sniff the stench of this from the mid-West, 50 years ago. They knew.

[@MomoSimone22]

I don't understand the part about Mel Brooks. What are you saying?

[@TimBitts649]

@@MomoSimone22 Did you watch?

[@JohnDavidSullivan]

It's insane to me to that Brett is only 22, she's a beautiful American woman, now married, she can articulate her thoughts so succinctly, wise, knowledgeable and intelligent and here I am at 42, and can barely string two sentences together. It just makes me feel like a big man with a small pp. Thanks Brett!! 🤣🤣🤣 (but would I love to meet her and shake her hand?? abso-friggin-lutely).

[@prettybird8942]

Parental love, guidance shapes the quality of our world. When you raise children properly those qualities are passed down from generation to generation. It proliferates, it’s infectious…

[@madhu_mohanreddy]

We need Jeff nippard!!

[@matthewedwards6025]

The reason Hollywood will never be cleaned up is because there are too many young women like Brett's "friend" who are willing to do whatever it takes to become famous. If they're gonna throw it at you, what man will resist?

[@jonathanstensberg]

A good man.

[@speabody]

@@jonathanstensbergSadly most men are at best average. See: bell curve.

[@sarahrobertson4629]

That's why governments have labour standards. There's no really good reason why child acting should be legal in the first place. Even if there's no abuse it could still be too hard on most kids. Too bad there's no research on outcomes (that I've seen).

[@lonewaer]

I mean there could be FBI raids. That'd be cleaning things up eventually.

[@periechontology]

What the heck are you talking about they were 14?!

[@MojoPapiFPV]

This is the best background yet. Not sure if this is still the digital wall, but it looks great.

[@etoineschrdlu9382]

From Hollywood to Broadway, the entire industry is a minefield that no one passes through without taking damage. I have many relatives in this industry and all of them have stories that involve abuse of this sort. You don't know who you can trust, and the ones you think you can trust find themselves at the behest of those whom you can't trust; you are going to find yourself compromised no matter what, even under the best of circumstances. Part of the problem is that there are so many actors vying for so few jobs, so many writers and directors competing for so few green light opportunities. The desperate will endure any kind of abuse to grasp at that slim chance.

[@alyzak.8997]

damn thanks for sharing

[@Rootz2000]

Strong parents, regardless of gender, are important. They are not something that can be substituted out of one's life easily.

[@StizzardLizzard]

That shits demonic

[@HolyMith]

Me after a chicken madras

[@ryzenfall]

Two of my favourite people on the internet! Love this and can’t wait to watch/listen to the full episode.

[@J0krswy1d]

Thank you to Brett for sharing that, and thank you to you for allowing her. Good video.

[@kaylay05]

Love seeing you two together! ❤ Always a great choice of guests

[@Stew_Pid]

TV show would have been Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street which she was on in 2016. Only real kids show I could find. Decent number of staff writers but the main creator and one of the writers is a former preschool teacher. So yeah.

[@somedude4805]

My parents tried desperately to make me a child star when I was very young. They took me to auditions for M&Ms commercials, I was on Bozo the Clown, they tried to get me into Nickelodeon, but I had crippling stage fright and knew what the red dot on the cameras meant, and I froze every time. I think that saved me from a life in Hell-ywood. My dad, however, was furious. He practically disowned me after several failed attempts to get rich off me. He was physically there throughout my childhood, but he might as well not have been.

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

WOW 😢🤯

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

WOW😢 🤯

[@loyalcarlon]

The lighting and set dressing on this episode is unbelievable. Why can’t more KZbin channels follow these aesthetic standards?

[@jrd33]

Lack of budget, lack of skill, different priorities. Might as well ask why can't more restaurants serve gourmet food.

[@travisjazzbo3490]

Brett is awesome. She is so together and really intelligent for someone so young

[@alyzak.8997]

right? Same age as me and I look up to her

[@DavyRo]

Any adult make or female who works with kids who has no sexual reasons for doing so, the last thing they want to do is be around those kids outside of their work. My wife is a primary school teacher & has been for over 25 yrs. She is loved by the kids she teaches. The amount of them that range from adults to teenagers who want to praise her & thank her for her patience in learning these mostly disadvantaged kids to learn to read & write is unbelievable. Honestly the live she gets from her ex pupils is off the scale. She has been asked by her employers to go for promotions hundreds of times. But she's happy doing what she does. But by christ if she can avoid these kids who she really likes & has a helluva lot of time for outside of work is laughable. She'll stay away from places she knows they are. If any are near our house, she panics saying I don't want them knowing we live here. Adults don't want to be constantly around kids who aren't their own. Usually in 99% of cases if they do, it because of their perversions.

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I CAN'T IMAGINE LOSING MY TWIN BROTHER LOSING A TWIN IS LIKE LOSING HALF OF YOURSELF ALMOST LIKE LOSING A PARENT OR CHILD

[@BigMeowOfAZ]

This is what we all love about you, Brett. You're authentic, you know where to draw the lines, and you got the courage to enforce those boundaries! As a father of two daughters, I salute you!

[@amyclaire3873]

Ohh very interesting choice of guest. I’m intrigued 😊

[@ArcaneZippity]

I'm glad that Brett's mom had the foresight to prepare her daughter as best she could... It's absolutely insane that there are parents out there who would willingly put their kid as well as other kids in harm's way, just to appease their kids wants and/or their own wants for getting roles/jobs/access...

[@thabopitsoo]

WHAT A COLLAB>>>

[@mommalou64]

Her story is very inspiring

[@showhq7125]

Excited for the full episode!

[@blinkybill2198]

Wait, the mother didn't want her daughter to be alone with the creep! Why didn't you go with your daughter or even better don't deal with him at all.

[@nnglnd]

Children being treated like adults. That ain't good

[@jacobwiles547]

During interviews with other KZbinrs, she talked about her childhood and the struggles she went through. Nevertheless, she had it better compared to what most child actors went through.

[@dayzeereyes128]

Man so sorry for you loss Brett 🙏

[@Hunchobamkubwa]

loving your content from Nairobi,Kenya 🇰🇪

[@ThePensmith78]

I see Brett and I had to watch 💯👏🏾

[@XxTreyvonxX]

wheres the full episode??

[@ozzycortes]

Comes out Monday

[@infographie]

Excellent.

[@craigbenz4835]

I love the table.

[@sabresbest]

Brett rocks

[@anFy81]

RIP Brian from ALF

[@edgar9651]

When she described that other girl with that creepy guy, I wonder what the girl was willing to do to get that job. Not forced, but, how about I do so and so, will you give me that job then? It would be interesting who starts those deals.

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

It's usually the predator

[@edgar9651]

@@EmoDKTsuchiya Is this what you think or hope, or do you have insider knowledge? It seems to me that some girls are willing to do a lot to become famous.

[@artawhirler]

Well, the girls in this case were 14 and 15 years old, so they technically weren't capable of legally consenting to any adult activities.

[@edgar9651]

@@artawhirler Correct. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't try. Some (young) girls know how to get what they want. Obviously older guys shouldn't do that. But that is Hollywood...

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

@@edgar9651 who do they learn those tactics from? It's usually their parents. People sell their kids to the industry all the time. That usually requires grooming.

[@Thisisausername556]

I think this podcast is going to be a banger. Nice change of pace from other podcasts he’s been doing, and Brett has a lot of insight for being in her early twenties.

[@SuperSuperdude88]

its weird shes acting like she was the biggest child star when she literally has done nothing? oh ya " ask brett she was in a single commercial she knows everything about child stars!"

[@christopherjones67]

I don't know who she is but regardless a disturbing narrative.

[@ItsAllCulturalMarxism]

Daily Wire host. Conservative.

[@rehdwolfe]

Very popular Gen Z host on the Daily Wire. She's wise beyond her years and generally kind. Her ad transitions are hilarious.

[@liquidsnakex]

@@rehdwolfe And one more you forgot: smokin hot

[@alexkatsanos8475]

- Gotta love acting more than life itself. Hopefully you have a support system and are literally armed with what you need like she was.

[@nathannickalo1109]

Name names! Have they learned nothing? If you cover it up, your helping them get their next victim.

[@SAMEntalhealth]

This is all just a big scam there are no names Dan Schneider is innocent😅

[@illusionlb]

if you name names without proof, you're just looking to get sued.

[@channel1_channel]

No pity. Hollywood!! Well known.

[@patheticpear2897]

She is quite a handsome woman.

[@spary5751]

Handsome is something you call an old woman

[@tranquilitybase7860]

Can't find the full episode

[@raraavis7782]

The teaser clips always come out before the actual episode.

[@tranquilitybase7860]

@@raraavis7782 tanks

[@ozzycortes]

Comes out Monday

[@KingoRichie1990]

Brett's mum was literally a shark! Wow. You can't really tell.

[@aidanmartin7923]

Why do i feel that its just mothers doing this more, i dont know a single man that would be ok with this

[@liquidsnakex]

Already experienced with trading se xua lity for perks and resources, so they don’t see it as that bad. Men think it’s wild because it wasn’t even a possibility for 99% of us, but if you had the opportunity to get rich and famous by slingin’ di ck when you were 15… don’t pretend like you wouldn’t have seized it. Most of us would, we just never had a chance to.

[@twit7380]

It takes 2 to get here. Kudos to Brett’s mom and all that she did, but if Brett had not been willing to receive the values her mom was teaching and taking them into her core the outcome would have been different. How many parents work their tails off to teach and emulate values and virtues only to have their kids reject them?

[@user-ug4lt3yr5w]

He is not weird, he is preditory

[@Roan.bot.]

Where tf is the full vid link

[@Alistair_Spence]

Williamson likes to chum the waters first with an excerpt or two, before releasing the full video.

[@ranamahadfarooq8932]

God damn she is pretty af, can't even focus 😭😭

[@alyzak.8997]

she taken, bro xD

[@liquidsnakex]

@@alyzak.8997 We’ll see what happens when the honeymoon phase is over lol

[@MWLA2]

How is this new news???

[@benforde3579]

W guest

[@emomuzz5883]

For the thousandth time: Brett is an ***ACTRESS***.

[@somebloke13]

*AN Actress

[@emomuzz5883]

@@somebloke13 Thank U!

[@rehdwolfe]

A person can be, usually are, ...more than one thing.

[@Dram1984]

And?

[@rune54321]

Love Brett. She is so smart and pretty

[@HieronymusLudo]

It seems that the collective moral compass in Hollywood is way off, which makes me distrust anyone working there about anything other than a specific work they have done. It must be one of the weirdest communities on earth, and no-one is calling them out on it.

[@mrs.garcia6978]

Heeeeeyyyyyyyy, cool crossover

[@TheInsida1]

2 arenas in which the devil runs free... wars and the entertainment industry.

[@roel.vinckens]

And wars have less hypocrisy.

[@TheInsida1]

@@roel.vinckens yes indeed

[@Stew_Pid]

Ah yes, the devil, an easy fictional character to help explain away evil creeps.

[@roel.vinckens]

@@Stew_Pid Only to the helplessly naive. To others a possible metaphor for the unsavoury within the human species.

[@jamesg3808]

and the government and education system

[@geraldstiling3735]

So the real take from this is Don't work in America.🎥..None of the cast of Harry Potter working for Warner Brothers report any of this 📝

[@davidsirmons]

If I had to guess, all this distorted fixation on young girls began with Shirley Temple. Even now, going back and seeing clips of her movies is just cringe AF.

[@SAMEntalhealth]

Dan Schneider is 150% innocent, it's the narrative that's guilty😅

[@DailyReadMotivationHub]

Hollywood's news

[@gr8witenorth61]

brett, you have the script, team up with mel gibson, and get some cameras on it, naturally you can be the exe-producer of the project, mel is mostly there for artisitic producer and director, the down side how would it be like that movie that came out about child slavery ???? or is it that, that egg has already been cracked and its old news//shock value, drama has lost that pull on a story

[@periechontology]

Is she suggesting that only women should wok in children's entertainment o that such an industry should not exist?

[@peteranderson3956]

I absolutely love Brett, she`s a shining light in a dark world.

[@thicclizzyisamanbaby5316]

Why do we get so much of our news from former Hollywood? It's fucking weird

[@williamobraidislee3433]

Your mom was not literally a shark.

[@lauraelizabethbrown]

That's right, she was literally an adult human female!

[@jnauttube]

jeffrey epstein used to show up at teen parties when he was a match teacher at the private school. Parents AND kids: Beware of the 'cool' teacher.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Describing the decadence of America well.

[@chasehedges6775]

💯💯💯America is collapsing just like Ancient Rome.

[@RedaMouhib-uv3gf]

The last thing I expected to happen

[@TwrZon-4all]

A little bit fake is still misleading, perhaps not as derogatory as outright lies, which has caused distrust for most of msm and faltering viewership.

[@paulishism]

She sounds like somebody else, but I can't put my finger on it.

[@troyster28]

Great vid but why wait so long to post the full podcast? I understand you want to "build hype" but I find this extremely annoying lol

[@denideniiis]

man i hope she's mentally ok....the story at 5:50 esp. since she was 14 like wtf....

[@robertpembroke8902]

I went out with a girl one time and she was a certainty as a Cat Walk Model. Very pretty and she was completely uninhibited. She said to me when I first had Sex with her that her name is, 'Noah' in the Thai Language and that she studied Krabi. I use to go to Krabi Beach for Holidays. The 007 Island scenes for James Bond were just nearby. A lot of people liked to stay at Koh PhiPhi, especially the people from Yale;) Mr Leonardo di Caprio stayed on some of the islands including Koh PhiPhi. It's a lovely place if you can get a reservation. They said I could stay there anytime:)

[@delix787]

I swear that Brett is a 22-year-old trapped in a 34-year-old body.

[@BlackstoneJ]

Oh God. Not Brett. She's performative, trained and boring. Candace Owens JR

[@fredcraven1699]

Is she on Adderall talk so fast

[@edbop]

Are you sure that's not Ben Shapiro wearing a wig and dress..?

[@patraic5241]

😂

[@mrfrosty3]

How original of you.

[@DMartins-mn9dt]

Um.......she was wearing pants.

[@edbop]

@@mrfrosty3 what do you mean..?

[@marcwilliams9824]

No, Ben has a much higher pitched voice.

[@Bellasguy]

So to be a teenaged actor you need to have anti-rape trainings twice a week? Maybe you should try a paper route instead.

[@SAMEntalhealth]

😅😅😅

[@jacke1862]

Is the problem the actors? Fix the title

[@markdevaal4116]

She talks that fast that even speed at 0.75 sound normal 😂

[@gumol7276]

first

[@Zynka17]

I wonder how this compares to being around Ben Shapiro.

[@murphychris9811]

its bob cooper

[@tamrattheg]

"The casting couch"? please elaborate..

[@TheLeedgelodge]

You don't wanna know. Ignorance, in this case, is bliss

[@alyzak.8997]

as in sleep with the superior to get cast

[@avarice.karmageddon]

What Joey on "Friends" did to get many of his roles on the show but with children

[@jrd33]

Granting sexual favours for help with one's career. For example, having sex with the director so he will consider you for a role in his production. Considered by many to be a common practice in Hollywood, especially historically.