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Just days after Netflix came under fire for some very unnecessarily racy pictures of 11-year-old girls for its new show, Cuties, Stanger Things star Natalia Dyer had some things to say about the over-sexualization of some of her own cast-mates…
25-year-old Natalia Dyer – who plays the role of Nancy Wheeler on Stranger Things – opened up about how she felt very protective of some of the show’s younger stars, as she believed they were sometimes represented in overly sexualized manner.
(And let’s not forget that 16-year-old Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven on the show, was only 13 years old when W magazine said she was one of the reasons TV was “sexier than ever”. We kid you not!)
“There are so many layers going on here,” Natalia told The Independent, referencing the idea that sexualizing child actors might be a “a cultural issue”…
“I generally feel like, to me, it’s over-sexualizing them. I feel protective over the younger kids even though they’re not kids anymore, they’re teens.
“They’re all great people and all having to grow up in very crazy circumstances.”
The star went on to say that child actors shouldn’t really be spoken about in any way other than if it’s about their achievements…
“As a private person, I just feel like, leave people alone – unless you’re talking about their work or what they want to talk about. It’s a very tricky and complex issue,” she added.
Natalia Dyer isn’t the only Stranger Things star to open up about the issues that come with being on such a popular show. Millie Bobby Brown got very candid about everything from over-sexualization to public scrutiny to lack of privacy and much more on her 16th birthday…
“16 has felt like a long time coming,” she wrote on Instagram last year, alongside a video of some of the negative press she had received over the years.