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** [[Rupert Grint]]'s major claim to eccentricity is owning an ice cream truck, saying that if his career after the ''Harry Potter'' movies are finished falls through, he can always fall back on a career as an ice cream man. A fairly mild indulgence for a multimillionaire, all things considered.
** As for [[Emma Watson]]... well, let's face it, there's no way anyone as good looking as her won't get at least a few more major roles in her career. Much like her character, she has done very well in school work and decided that, after her work with the movie series is done, she'd take a career break to finish her college degree like [[Natalie Portman]] did. Eventually she went to college while continuing her career, appearing in films like ''[[My Week with Marilyn]]'' in 2011, the film version of ''[[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]'' in 2012, and the live-action version of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' in 2017.
*** Film critic Leonard Maltin famously said that Watson was in "the early stages of babehood". Now that she's most certainly an adult and effectively
** As a side note, [[Chris Columbus]], who directed the first two ''Potter'' films, previously directed ''[[Home Alone]]''. As he has discussed in interviews, Columbus is unhappy with how [[Macaulay Culkin]] turned out and considers this partly his fault. When casting the ''Potter'' kids, he was determined to avoid the same mistakes and tried to cast children with stable home lives.
* [[Phil Collins]]. Though he was a child model/actor who played [[The Artful Dodger]] in a West End production of ''[[Oliver!]]'' and had teeny tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-him roles in ''[[A Hard Day's Night]]'' and ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'', his success as an adult far eclipsed his success as a child actor/model.
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* Also averted with [[Sarah Jessica Parker]], who started her career as [[Annie]] on Broadway and in the series ''[[Square Pegs]]'', then made the transition to adult star with plenty of movie roles... and then she starred in ''[[Sex and the City]]''...
* Sean Astin transitioned fairly well from [[The Goonies|child actor]] to [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|adult actor]].
* [[Jennifer Connelly]] went a long way from being a young girl in ''[[Labyrinth]]'' to being the respectable
* Thomas Sangster, from such films as ''[[Love Actually]]'' and ''[[Nanny McPhee]]'', has had success beyond his cute little boy image, in films as diverse as ''Hitler: The Rise of Evil'' and ''Tristan & Isolde''. Sangster also played young Paul McCartney in ''[[Nowhere Boy]]''.
* Back in the 1910s, at the Vitagraph film studio, there was a local kid from Brooklyn named Harry Horowitz who enjoyed hanging out there. Harry was charming and [[Large Ham|a natural ham]], and the Vitagraph people began putting him in films, making him a child star. Young Harry would grow up to be one of the most violent and abusive men in the world: {{spoiler|Moe Howard of [[The Three Stooges]]. [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|But it's an aversion too.]]}}
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