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For her upcoming directorial debut, Demi Lovato is focusing the lens connected the realities of being a kid prima and what happens erstwhile the spotlight fades. Get the details.
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Demi Lovato is going backmost to her roots.
For her upcoming directorial debut—a Hulu documentary tentatively titled Child Star—the vocalist and actress is tackling a taxable she knows rather a spot about: the realities of puerility stardom.
"The movie volition research however children are propelled to superstardom astatine a young age," according to the streamer, "and however their emergence to fame, luck and powerfulness affects their futures."
Demi made her tv debut connected Barney & Friends in 2002 erstwhile she was conscionable 10 years old. She booked her breakout relation connected the Disney Channel movie Camp Rock, alongside the Jonas Brothers, successful 2008.
"There is nary amended movie oregon taxable for my directorial debut than this story, which is adjacent to home," Demi said successful a statement. "Our task sheds airy connected important messages astir increasing up successful the nationalist eye, learning to support our boundaries and becoming progressive advocates of our ain destinies."
The Sonny With a Chance prima continued, "I'm humbled to beryllium capable to larn from the individuals who person lived the unsocial acquisition of kid stardom and stock their stories successful our film."
In summation to Demi, the movie volition "chronicle a fig of kid stars, pulling backmost the curtain connected both their idiosyncratic struggles and triumphs portion increasing up successful the limelight, and whether that acquisition drove them deeper into the satellite of entertainment, oregon to flight it entirely," according to Hulu.
At the moment, the different participating names "are being held nether choky wraps."
Demi archetypal teased the documentary during an August appearance the Call Her Daddy podcast.
When host Alex Cooper asked Demi if she had ever discussed the "Disney machine" with different erstwhile web alums, Demi revealed, "I deliberation implicit the years we've talked astir it for sure, but I bash person a task successful the works wherever I privation to speech to immoderate of those radical astir their experiences."
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The documentary, co-directed alongside Nicola Marsh, volition deed Hulu sometime successful 2024.
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