So, as it turns out, Hollywood has taken care of the child actors in Slumdog Millionaire. Quoting a quote from a Freakonomics blog post:
Danny Boyle placed the money to be paid to the three lead child actors in a trust that is to be released to them upon their completion of grade school at 16 years of age. The production company has set up for an autorickshaw driver to take the kids to school every day until they are 16 years old.
Upon their completion of grade school? Is this a conditional cash transfer? Is the reason not to pay to children now because of child labor law or paternalism or both? And have the producers met their obligation, if any, to help these kids out of poverty?
Seriously. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
2 comments:
do you think the producers might be concerned that the parents of the actors might misuse the money if it is given to them now, when the children don't have control over it?
still not sure why the payment for their work is being delayed, but I can think of a situation where the money is wasted by guardians.
I agree with Valli. Absolutely seems like a way to keep parents from wielding too much control over the money. Though that raises questions of whether that is right or not...I don't think they'd do such a thing with child actors in the U.S.
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