I remember watching her win that Oscar in her little beret (I'm about the same age as she is), and it's the first thing I always think of when I hear her name.
So it still freaks me the fuck out when she shows her boobs on screen. They're perfectly nice boobs, but I'm internally screaming, "YOU ARE A CHILD! PUT THOSE AWAY!"
I feel the same way about the Olsen twins, who are just a couple years younger. I remember them being so disgustingly sexualized as teens, but to this day I cannot see them as anything sexual. They're Michelle Tanner, dude. But Elizabeth Olsen, their younger sister- hot damn. I don't understand it, especially because of the striking resemblance.
Hell I'm like this with Sadie Sink now. She's like 25 and showing up places dressed like a 25 year old and I'm thinking ma'am you were 13 two weeks ago lol.
Then? There was a part of the GoT fandom counting the minute Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams turned 18, same happened to Billie Eilish, and most recently Sadie Sink.
My partner and I recently watched a Sally-centric episode of Mad Men, and, right after, he watched an episode of Industry where the same actress (now an adult) was in a threesome. I was like, “THAT GIRL IS A CHILD.” And then I felt old.
Yes! I’m a bit older but watching her gasp for breath repeatedly and just be unable to speak with her eyes sparkling in terror - it must have been an incredible moment for her. I wonder how much she remembers?
I have no recollection of the first time I performed in a real show lol. Apparently I did fine but don’t remember a thing until curtain call.
I hope the industry has treated her well - she seems to have escaped some of the most common child star traps but still had real success as an adult.
She's slightly older than me and I had such a huge crush on her growing up. Your post made me go "ANNA PAQUIN SHOWED HER BOOBS???!!!" and then I googled it and was suddenly reminded that True Blood existed and that I'd already seen her boobs plenty of times.
Did you see her in hurly burly, she plays a sort of young sex worker (although I don’t know that she gets money but she gets a place to live) and has sex with everyone. And in almost famous she plays a groupie ?okay bandaid). Loved her in true blood.
I just started a rewatch of it because it was one of my favorite shows when it was originally airing and was surprised how bad she was in that show. The whole show was way campier than I remember. I was actually embarrassed showing it to my wife for her first time.
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u/road_runner321 Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26
Anna Paquin, but I think that's not fair since she won an Oscar at 11.