Former Disney Channel star Dylan Sprouse is getting candid about how he feels about his career as a child actor.During a recent episode of his podcast, "Wildmen," the 34-year-old actor told his co-host, Brendan Columbus, that he was looking forward to speaking with their guest for that episode, Mark Indelicato, about the demands placed on child actors, calling it "child labor.""I definitely want to dive in and talk with him a little bit about some of that, how he’s coped growing up in the industry because, essentially, we’re beating around the bush, but it’s child labor," Dylan said."Like, when you work at that age, some kids used to work in coal mines and guard the mine cart door when they were 15, we just sang and danced.
It’s still child labor!"He added that he still deals with his own "mental hurdles" when it comes to working in the entertainment industry as an adult, saying he finds it difficult to be "in the same industry I've been in forever."BELLA THORNE SAYS HOLLYWOOD TREATED HER LIKE A KID ON SCREEN AND AN ADULT OFF CAMERADylan Sprouse called working as a child actor "child labor." (Getty Images)"I act like a kid anyway.So, I wonder if I'm just always chasing that," he said.Sprouse brought the topic of child labor back up when he and Columbus were joined by Indelicato, who starred as Justin Suarez on "Ugly Betty" from ages 12 to 15.Sprouse compared acting as a child to working "a full office job," saying he grew "up in the industry with this kind of workaholic attitude.""I’ve described this to people a lot before – when you’re working on television, it’s a day job," he said.
"You go in, you clock in, you clock out, you have a cubicle … it’s different, but it’s the same hours.You work it like that."Dylan Sprouse compared acting as a child to working an office job.
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