Maisie Williams – little Arya Stark on Game of Thrones – covers the new issue of Dazed. Maisie is actually 17 years old now, although she still has that kind of baby face that works well for permanent-child Arya. I actually love this Dazed shoot – I like that it’s not “high fashion” or even about the clothes. It’s just about her face and her expressions. And Maisie is one fierce young woman! Some highlights from the interview:
People underestimate her generation: “People think we’re f–king stupid and we don’t know anything about anything. It’s really degrading. I get a lot of adults who are like, ‘You don’t know sh-t,’ and it’s like, ‘You don’t know sh-t. You have no idea what it’s like to be 17 years old.'”
Kit Harington on Ayra: “[Arya] is one of the hardest to cast, and what you’re really looking for is that character in the child. When Maisie walked into the room, that’s what they got. She had the energy of Arya, the cockiness and reckless abandon. They’re kindred spirits, really.”
Maisie on what Lupita Nyong’o said to her: “She said, ‘It sounds stupid, but I’ve learned so much from you. I watch Game of Thrones all the time and honestly, being so new myself in the industry, I was just watching people who had done this same sort of thing.’”
Whether she considers herself a role model: “Whether I like it or not, I’ve become influential to people. I don’t wanna be liked just because I’m pretty. That’s f–king boring, and I’m not that. Lots of young people in the industry try to play it cool, but it just makes them look like arrogant d**kheads. I’d much rather be liked because people realize that I’m standing up for myself.”
[From Dazed via Us Weekly]
So much ‘tude!! When I was 17 years old… I was more sullen and try-hard cynical. I pretended to be worldly, like I had seen it all before. And in truth, I was pretty g—damn sheltered. I get a similar vibe off Maisie, and I don’t mean that in a “I hate her” sort of way at all. She’s a kid and she’s got a ‘tude. It’s fine. I’d like to point out to her that all of the adults telling her that she “doesn’t know sh-t” were once 17 though. They DO know what it’s like to be 17 years old. And that’s probably why they’re telling her to settle down, perhaps?
Photos courtesy of Dazed Magazine.
What a brat.
Agreed. Anyone older than her knows what it’s like to be 17.
Yep. That’s always my comeback. I ‘ve been your age but you’ve never been mine. I also know from experience that it’s aggravating for smart, independent teens to deal with adult B.S. sometimes. But she’s a legal adult with her own income, so deal.
For real lol
Like DUH I was 17 once. And this is exactly why I consider her generation especially stupid.
@bettyrose
If I had her money, you wouldn’t hear me complaining about not being taken seriously….all my interviews would be about rolling in all my money like Uncle Scrooge McDuck…..lol.
but there is a huge difference to being 17 years old NOW and being a 17 year old in say the 1980s. Hell I’m only 28 and I know that my life as a 17 year old was vastly different from the lives of 17-year olds today. I get the point she’s making–they don’t know what it’s like to be 17 in TODAY’S world. And I think everyone should respect the fact that your experiences in the world when you were a certain age are not the same as someone who is 17 years old now. Hell my generation is said to be the laziest generation and I always get furious b/c the world is a much different place for me than it was for my parents/grandparents/etc. at the age of 28.
@lem – i think you summed it up perfectly. nothing to add.
She sounds exactly like a normal 17 year old. In about 15 years she’ll look back and go “s**t I was an idiot” as we all do (or at least I do) 😀
Oh how her perspective will change when she’s lived through her 20’s and 30’s, dealing with all the normal, adult life problems that aren’t avoidable or easily resolved. I can’t judge her much as I had a similar ‘tude at that age, thinking my parents didn’t know what it was like to be me. Turns out, they didn’t because they had different personalities, expectations and dreams than I did, not that they were clueless.
@Lem, perfectly said. We really don’t know what it’s like to be a teenager in the age of social media, that, for the average teen is a game changer, least of all when you’re on one of the biggest tv shows internationally. Sure, yes, I was 17 (and self-righteous and cynical and all knowing) but I could do that in the privacy of my hometown without the likes of Instagram or Facebook where (shudder) I could have broadcast all of my 17 year old thoughts. They live in a different era, completely. An era where your internet usage qualifies as a ‘self brand’, where you need to edit and censor yourself, where you’re open to devastating levels of criticism for merely maintaining a basic social life (by today’s standards at least).
I’m 29 and I can’t relate to that kind of pressure as a teen. And those are the non famous teens. I’d imagine little Maisie could school a lot of people a lot older than her in such matters.
I hate pile on someone so young, but she and teens like her honestly don’t get it. I’ve met plenty of mature, levelheaded teenagers, and plenty of immature, juvenile 30+ year olds. But ultimately, you don’t know shit at 17–and that is okay. You are learning and have all the time in the world to gain experience. That being said, please stop acting like you know everything and that us old folk don’t get it.
Right. I so remember thinking I knew everything at that age and that my parents were just blind to my superior knowledge of the world. It was frustrating. But the truth is, you might be mature, you might be smart, but you have very little life experience, and that’s where knowledge comes from. It’s good for the young to question everything and see the world with fresh eyes. But someday she’ll look back on this and say, yeah they were right, I didn’t know sh$t.
Sort of replying to myself here, but wanted to add that the things I said don’t mean she’s stupid. I doubt any of the adults in her life are trying to tell her she’s stupid, either. She’s just inexperienced, and when you’re her age, things are more black and white. As you get more experience, you see that life is more complicated and these big pronouncements aren’t as simple as you thought.
“I hate pile on someone so young, but she and teens like her honestly don’t get it. I’ve met plenty of mature, levelheaded teenagers, and plenty of immature, juvenile 30+ year olds. But ultimately, you don’t know shit at 17–and that is okay. You are learning and have all the time in the world to gain experience. That being said, please stop acting like you know everything and that us old folk don’t get it.”
Yes to everything you said, especially that last sentence. 🙂
Also, I agree with GoodNamesAllTaken’s comments.
“You don’t know shit,” said every adult to every 17-year old ever. Get over it.
I don’t like the label brat. But she is definitely angry for some reason or another. I will give her leeway because she has been doing an adult job since she was a child. That will skew your perspective. I’m sure in many ways she has experience beyond her years and is probably frustrated when she gets treated like “Just another 17 year old”. Hopefully, with time, she will learn about flies and honey and find her treatment is more to her liking.
Youth is wasted on the young , says me from the high vantage point of forties…. Sorry Maisie darling, I love you on GoT but get off your high horse, and do a reality check. If we lived through being a teenager, trust me we remember and have the scars to show. No, it was not a digital age but guess what, nasty gossip could spread the old fashioned way, via telephone and hand written notes (gasp, we would actually write, like, with a pencil on like paper⚡️- imagine that? Might as well have bee in a cave by firelight). And some people were nice and some mean. Some kids were cool and some girls pretty, some played goth and others were dumb Barbie princess types. Very few were millionaire actresses with magazine covers then, and very few are now. Not sure what you are angsty about, but I am certain it makes perfect sense to you, and it is normal, your hormones are rushing everywhere, your frontal lobes are growing and being restructured… Let’s talk in ten years once, okay? Just take a minute to realize that if adults in your family or your industry are somewhat condescending it is because at the ripe old age of 17 “you know nothing, Jon Snow.”
I love love love this girl, her brows, her self possession, just love so hard
#arya4eva
Yes, Arya is my favorite character. Just got a new kitten, can you guess her name?
Is there a bug on her face or am I high?
I tried really hard to like Game of Thrones but I just couldn’t get past the first season. Everybody loves it and I feel like I’m missing something. Am I the only one?
You’re not high, she just said something negative about Beyonce once.
And yes.
I missed the waffle bus and now the GOT bus. I’ll go back to the lamey lame corner and sit with Tobey Maguire. *sniff*
Aw.
*brings taterho a real life waffle wif tater tots on top*
I thought it was one of those stickers that looks like a bullet hole. A guy at work had them plastered all over his car like he’d been in a shoot out.
Trained to bee sweet as honey.
I find it super boring. I don’t dislike it, just can’t get into it! People make us feel crazy, we gotta stick together!
We need to make “I don’t get GOT” t-shirts and form a club.
I’ll bring waffles and kale to the first meeting.
I need to be in da club with y’all.
So many bearded men who all look the same, so much ZZZZZZZ.
OT but you know what I just finished watching? The Red Road. Got really into it, and not just because Jason Mamoa is sexy as f*ck-all.
@Kitten
OMFG, I was waiting for a reason to mention it on here. I just watched the first episode, and God do I have to agree with you. Mamoa, Mamoa, MAMOA……Lord he is fine. And I’d always kinda seen him as a meathead (Conan), a sexy meathead, so I was pleasantly surprised at his acting skills.
No, I get it. The first season had me feeling the same way, but if you stick with it through season two, you might be hooked like I was. The first season I had a hard time keeping the names, families and storyline straight. It felt like work to keep track of it, but a few episodes into season two the characters become so fascinating, and the acting is so perfect, it falls into place. Now I wait for my netflix discs like a crack addict.
I read it before it came on TV, so it was easy for me to follow and I knew more about each character than they have time to portray in a show. I’m not sure if I would have gotten into it if I just watched it on TV. I like it, but you have to tolerate a lot of violence and dragons. My husband just looked at me and said “it has dragons? Forget it.” And I can see that.
I tried to flick it off my iPad screen. After a couple of attempts I realized it was in the picture.
Sounds like Kristen Stewart.
Also a reminder that teenagers are insufferable narcissists.
She’s such a firecracker.
Still a fair bit of growing up needed to be done, but I think that can be said for most people.
For a 17 year old in the TV/film business, she’s doing really well in my book. I reckon she’ll look back at her quotes in a few years and wince, though.
4 DAYS UNTIL SEASON 5!!!!
People don’t think her generation is stupid ,just self absorbed and over shares. The bug on her face freaks me out.
‘You don’t know sh-t. You have no idea what it’s like to be 17 years old.’
Yes dear, no adult has ever been 17 years old. Ever.
I look forward to the interview in 10 years where she goes “I didn’t know sh-t when I was 17.”
I wonder how many times the interviewer rolled his or her eyes? lol. I would have rolled mine so much they would have stayed in the “give me a damn break girl” position! 😉
ha ha ha yes! I said this above before I saw your comment 😀
“I look forward to the interview in 10 years where she goes ‘I didn’t know sh-t when I was 17.'”
Exactly. At some point, we all say (or at least, think) something similar. LOL.
I think she meant that they don’t know what it’s like to be a 17 year old at the moment. I was 17 ten years ago but I’m sure my 17 was very different to what hers is.
All 17yr olds think they know it all. Her attitude is such a cliché that it is cute.
I don’t think anyone thinks this batch of 17-year-olds is any dumber or more self-absorbed than any earlier batches of 17-year olds — they ALL don’t know shit! We sure didn’t when we were their age!
I am sure she is just fine but since I have my very own personal-issue teenagers I can’t say that I am super-interested in her insights. The only thing missing from her comments is the classic “I never asked to be born!”
In Britain, we call this “giving it large”.
I’m always caught with adolescent celebs. On the one hand, I hate bratty celebs, whatever their age. On the other, I love kids, especially when they’re flailing about, shouting their brand new opinions to the rooftops. It’s so bloody life-affirming, ain’t it? All that verve and vim and vigour.
Sixlet Major told me only this morning that not only should the vote be extended to 16-year-olds, it should also be taken away from anyone aged 40+ (40 being the age at which you are so decrepit, you’re without hope, obviously) since anyone old enough to have voted several times is clearly personally responsible for each and every one of the woes of the world. “You’ve already messed it up, Mum. Why should we let you have another go?”
I made him stand in the naughty juvenile corner with his face to the wall. (Not really).
Isn’t she adorable being all opinionated and such? I just want to pinch her cheeks and pat her on the head. SMH LOL.
I love teens 🙂
Bless Sixlet major LOL.
I know! The more she protests the cuter she is! Love her.
I love teens too. It’s that mad mix they talk that’s somewhere between utter tripe and clear sight untainted by the compromises of life that gets me.
Your boy sounds awesome. I like it when kids take that kind of attitude into their adult years and try to make a difference in the world.
You can smile to yourself knowing full well what awaits him once he’s released into the wilds of post-uni adulthood. It’s just a matter of time…
I’m kinda agreeing with the concept that past voters screwed everything up.
*flails in unity with with ‘giving it large’, promptly tumbles down stairs*
*and breaks a hip because of osteoarthritis.*
“…and bellows, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
Just push your Life Alert button
Sixlet Major sounds like a hoot and a half.
Good on him. My son is always debating adults. For example his school stresses the need for students to wear closed toe shoes for occupational health and safety reasons. But he noticed that teachers weren’t doing the same, but when he pointed this out to his coordinator they just pulled rank on him and said “don’t tell me how to do my job”.
Ah, youth.
Teenagers are dumb and narcissistic. It’s a time in your life when there is so much drama and everything is THE WORST THING EVER! And I know this. Because I was once 17. LOL.
Unless there’s a reason for that bee on your face, it isn’t helping matters.
Lol
Everything you complained about at 17 is peanuts compared to when you’re 40. LOL!
Not in my case. I hated being young. All that pressure to find the perfect partner followed by the coupled by the self-hatred and bitterness when it didn’t was hell. I enjoy being old resigned to my fate much more. And on that happy note the couple next door have erupted into a blown screaming match. Ah, I love being single.
Excuse the errors. I’m also senile.
I do know what it’s like to be 17 though, wasn’t too long ago. Six years? Was definitely 17 at the social media age.
I was f-cking stupid. I don’t think there’s an adult alive who doesn’t look back at their 17-year-old self and think: “Oh, you sweet summer child”.
Actually, I think I’ve good 40-50 years to live. I’ll let you know when I reach an age where I look back at my 5 years younger self and think “damn, woman, you were so stupid”. In an endearing way, of course, but seriously.
Lol, not me (20). I only joined facebook when I was about 16, after being bugged about it from my mom for about 2 years. I was the last person in my family to join. In four years, I think I’ve made MAYBE 20 posts in total. And mostly it’s crap on what a creep Terry Richardson is. I don’t have instagram, and don’t take duck faced selfies. I didn’t spend my teens waiting for “likes”.
I guess I don’t understand what she’s so angsty about all the time. She’s rich, she’s famous. She’s got everything going for her. I don’t see her complaining about disadvantaged people, or better yet disadvantaged teenagers who will never get the advantages that she has. I mean, I had fairly uneventful school years, and even I got a taste of what teens that were a lot less fortunate than me (I went to school with a lot of foster kids)….
She’s just very sheltered, and very annoying. Hopefully she’ll grow out of it.
Oh thunderhumper. What I meant to say was “…when i look back and think “you were not stupid”.”
I don’t think that the selfie and oversharing culture is stupid per se. It’s just what’s happening today. I’m talking about the naivete and the black and white world of a teenager that dates back to when Ugg first started pulling Agga’s pigtails.
Other than that, I’m inclined to agree with you.
She sounds 17.
Tude on, check. Words, check. Teeth slightly clench…nostrils slightly flair….smirk….shots fired!
Kinda sounds like me at the age. Only took 4 years of college to realize my parents weren’t as clueless as I thought and another 10 years of getting kicked in the face by life to realize how easy life was when I wasn’t feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders.
As a high school teacher I can say for certainty that they don’t know s**t. They don’t. They are teenagers living in a digital world. It is very different from when I was a teenager. They still have the same teenage problems but now they seek validation from social media, that is what changed.
On another note, I can’t wait until Sunday. YAY!
“Teenagers living in a digital world”
I am glad internet wasn’t around when I was a teenager, I don’t know if I could have survived…
I’m very grateful there is no permanent photographic evidence of the stupid crap I pulled in my youth floating on some social media site because I swore I knew everything.
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
Eleonor, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have come of age prior to the internet. It has changed so much about how we relate to one another that we have to take deliberate steps to avoid interacting mainly through social media.
I’ve taught 12th graders, just her age, for 23 years. They are much more idealistic than we are, and many of them are thoughtful and bright. Not this girl, though! She sounds like a self-involved narcissist who thinks the biggest problem in the works is being disrespected because she’s 17???? Clueless. Totally.
Now, if she was like some of my students and talked about the growing inequality between the rich and everyone else, or California drying up like a prune as we speak, or orphans in war zones, I might give her some respect. As is, I think she’s a pretty, over-privileged little fool.
Your intelligence is shown by the choice of words you use.
f-cking A d-ckhead right it is
I was catching up on TWD last night and it reminded me that I need to use “mother d*ck” (Abraham) more often.
I LOVE your screen name!
@mimif Have your boyfriend put a pie in the waffle-maker. Now. Get back to me with the results.
I love her! And I think she’s talking about what’s like to be seventeen nowadays, which obviously isn’t the same as it was thirty, twenty, ten, or heck, even five years ago. I am a few years older than her, and the only thing that bugs me more than hearing adults underestimating teenagers just for being young, is hearing myself doing it without realizing it. Lots of people say the younger generation is lost, as if the older generation had nothing to do with that.
PS: Random, but I never noticed she had a nose stud until now!
Ask anyone in her generation to tell you their parents’ phone number without pushing speed dial or looking it up in their smart phones. Chances are, they don’t know it, but bless her heart. She knows everything.
She seems pretty typical for 17. I think back to my 17 year old self and damn, I didn’t know a thing but I was sure that I knew it all. Everything was so dramatic all the time. Then you grow up – I went to college – saw more of life. I just turned 30 and every few years I think back to my previous self and realize how much I didn’t know, and how much I don’t know now, and how in a few years I’ll realize again how much I don’t know. Ha, I’m not sure if that makes sense. Anyway, I guess my point is that I’m stupid and there’s always so much more to learn.
And yeah Maisie, I do know what it’s like to be 17. I have a feeling that quote might haunt her.
C’mon people, give her a break. She’s had to go through the most awkward and anxty years of her life on a screen. She probably pulls long hours, and has to hear people say she isn’t the “pretty” one. Meanwhile, she’s been able to carve out a really sparkly, effervescent, complex and strong female lead character on a major hit.
I just hate cursing in interviews.
I’m not a saint and I’ve had moments where I think to myself, “Wow I’m just letting them fly today.” but an interview is supposed to be this moment where your opinions are requested for the sole purpose of being put to paper and used to represent your thoughts. All I got from her’s was, “D*ckhead, sh*t, f*ck. You don’t know me man! You don’t know my generation!”
Sheesh. All I got, as someone who doesn’t watch GOT, was that this kid has a lot of energy and not much else. I’ll give her a pass for her age but I remain unimpressed, I could have gotten this same interview from some teenagers at the mall.
She and Lorde will hopefully gain some perspective and real maturity soon. I’m really not one to be talking at the ripe old age of 25, but good gosh get a grip. She’s beginning to be kinda bratty. Maybe if you asked why adults think you’re dumb you’d gain some knowledge. Introspection is a good thing to learn young. But I was taught that by a wonderful professor in an AP class I took in high school. I got lucky that he was teaching, and lucky my teenage brain listened to some degree. All teenagers nowadays are suffering from some dumb adults around them too. I think that’s the bigger problem; that adults are less and less mature.
I’m not surprised at the comments. Every time I read an interview from her, she comes off as insufferable like Lorde used to. I get that it’s an age thing, but I’m sure they both have handlers to reel them in.
If she had expressed herself differently, I probably wouldn’t have disagreed with her or would have been sympathetic to her cause. But her quotes sounded unpleasant to read. Do celebrities swear more nowadays than in the past? (Unless you’re Noel and Liam Gallagher who sound kind of hilarious when they swear, it usually comes off kind of try-hard in print).
Dennis Leary: “You’re 18 years old. You don’t know sh*t about sh*t.”
She reminds me of my own brat.
Every 17 year old thinks they know everything about everything and that adults don’t know what it’s like to be them. She’ll be embarrassed someday if she ever has kids who will say this exact thing to her!
Yes but I also found it condescending of adults who parroted they were our age once when I was 17! (I am 27 now) and to be honest, no I don’t know what’s it like to be 17 anymore. There wasn’t Twitter, Instagram, tumblr or Snapchat back then (Facebook had just exploded in poularity and MySpace was on the decline). Sure some things are the same–the drama, the hormones, puberty, tensions with your parents… But I have blissfully left all that behind and forgotten a lot of it. It’s like trying to remember another life. So I get where she is coming from because I bristled the same way when adults responded that way.
I hated it too, the patronising “you don’t know shit, you’re a teenager”. But I like to think of it as a privilege that comes with age. You survived the horrendous time of teenagehood and all of the stupidity that it entailed, now you get to giggle at the next generation. And I was a teenager throughout the noughties, so I’m an internet age kid. It’s… it’s really not that terrible (says the woman who just discovered journal entries on an art site she frequents still with the same username, dating back ten years to when she was 13. Oh my GOD that was a painful half an hour of spamming the delete button while desperately not trying to look at the content of the entry)
(Since I was a 17 year- old, I do know.)
All we need to do is take a look at Facebook and other social media outlets and their ignorance is full display. This is a generation that can’t read or write in cursive. Good luck reading any original source documents.
There are some super bright teens out there but they are far and few between. The majority of what you see on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook is horrifying. They can’t spell correctly. They all act stuck up and think the world owes them something. Most of them think they are going to graduate college and start earning a six figure salary the next day. Reality is going to hit these brats so hard. They’ve never been told “no”. They don’t know what it’s like to “lose” at something because they all get gold stars for just “trying”.
Does everyone forget what it was like to be 17?
I went to University (20 years ago) and thought I would get a great job and earn good money.
The only thing I get from this interview is that times haven’t changed as much as I thought.
The younger generation is a reflection of ourselves.
Get used to it, Maisie. The media and the politicians think the majority of people are stupid and they’re right.
Oh boy. Generation gap here. Maisie is 17. I am 50. I remember when I was 17. I think it was just yesterday, in fact. Yes – people think her generation is stupid because – and I am sorry – they are. They are (IMHO) mostly brainwashed, totally predictable and have a weird herd mentality. They are shallow, vapid and totally narcissistic and self-involved. Which isn’t to say that prior generations weren’t that way, but NEVER to this degree. I see no – or (to be fair) very little – original thought coming out the younger generation. There are no Paul Simon’s or Bob Dylan’s among you. No Maya Anjelou’s. There are no Ghandi’s or Edison’s or Shakespeares. There’s….what? Kanye? Who may think he’s the trumped embodiment of these things, but really – not so much. One need only look at the internet and Twitter and the comments being made in 140 characters or less. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: one of the best things about being 50 is that I’ll be dead before this generation is ruling the world. I’m sorry to say this, but I see it as I see it. And – to be fair – I don’t blame them. In fact, the blame lays with the older generations (including mine).
Really? No Malala either?
Good grief – look at all the insults to teenagers here. I think lots of teens endlessly hear people telling them that they’re “stupid” or “clueless”. No wonder some teens don’t listen to adults. People DO forget what it was like to be 17, and throw all these generalizations about that age group. I know that some kids do get a little full of themselves and their opinions, but I find that talking to them and listening to what they say instead of just saying “you don’t know shit at your age” is more productive than insults.
Well, when you give heavy attitude like this and try to come off like you know things about the world–of which you know very little–you need to be taken down a peg. She’s far too young with too little experience to be speaking with such certainty.
I dunno I kind of feel like that is high fashion.
I’m a high school teacher and their generation do have it harder in certain aspects than we did (I’m 39), but at the same time, they also have it easier in other aspects. They are somewhat more sheltered by the parents, more spoiled with objects. Materialism is much more important now, than it was 2 or 3 decades ago. Curiously, simultaneouly I do find they are also much more lonely, and more needy for attention and warmth. Many of them, though more aggressive and seemingly more emotionless, I do feel sorry. Many lack real attention from their parents. Society has changed a lot, an with those changes, we have a colder, yet more in need of warmth generation.
Then, when we were their age, there was a brighter future in terms of job opportunity, for them,it’s getting much more complicated, it’s so much competitive.
I felt a lot of anger at adults too at that age. Even now that I’m older, it irks me when adults dismiss teens as incapable of insight because they haven’t “experienced the world.” People gather insight, knowledge, and wisdom in different ways.
And even if they didn’t, what does it mean to be “experienced?” I’m sure children working at Foxconn are more experienced in economic and emotional hardship than some adults in the US will ever be. And I’m sure Maisie has experienced more first hand about public pressure to conform to certain expectations (including expectations based on age) than I, an older, nonfamous person, will ever know.
In this respect, I do *not* know what it is like to be 17-year old Maisie. I don’t have that experience as a 17 yr old because I haven’t lived that context. And so it would be truly ignorant of me to smugly claim to understand her 17-yr old context on the basis of only having literally been her age.
I get tired of the youngest generation–yes yours, Maisie–thinking that they know what’s up with the world and they have things on lock at such a young age. No, you don’t, and I know you don’t like hearing it, but YOU ARE 17. You literally do not have the aggregate life experience to be considered an expert on anything in life, at all. You’re a child. You’re an upstart young brat who is impatient with being a kid. Well, welcome to being a teenager. Having money and an acting career doesn’t make you experienced or wise. You’re a kid. Get over it.
I’ve a feeling she’ll be embarassed as hell in another 20 years.
I wasn’t stupid at 17. My basic personality was still the same. I just lacked a lot of confidence and self-esteem and I thought a lot of adult matters were pointless and pathetic. I didn’t really want to grow up because I thought most adults looked miserable and depressed and only kids and teens seemed to have any life.
So, although of course she is young and is probably doing a bit of a ‘teen rebellion’ thing x a lot of swearing to seem edgy and not so innocent, there is a certain spirit and intelligence that comes with being young. Remember being a kid and seeing through an adults BS?
‘But why do you have to do that mummy?’
‘Because it’s just the way it is okay?’
Kids and teens question whereas adults ACCEPT. So I don’t necessarily think she is stupid, nor should we really ridicule her. Perhaps she said what she said in the wrong way but I think a lot of teens are very intelligent and think outside of the box. They are just trying to adjust to the weird world us adults are a part of and half the time it doesn’t make sense to me either.
Also, at 17 I wasn’t a drama seeking teen…well…I was kind of but not through drugs or promiscuous sex, more through relationships and ‘society sucks’ but I liked that I was so passionate and all or nothing once. I’m also glad I grew past it. I would NOT be 17 again. I would like to stay at 25 though!