By Jodi Smith | Celebrity | November 7, 2017 |
By Jodi Smith | Celebrity | November 7, 2017 |
Over the weekend, a Twitter user with the handle xx (@chandlerborrero) put Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard on blast with this ridiculous tweet:
First of all, you’re allegedly a grown-ass man who stalked a 14-year-old child outside of his hotel room, in hopes of getting whatever it is that you think you’re owed for watching a Netflix show. Second of all—wait, that’s it. The user has since set their account to private.
Wolfhard’s co-stars came to his defense on Twitter, which isn’t surprising. What is surprising is that Sophie Turner, who began playing Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones when she was fifteen, defended Wolfhard. She shamed anyone expecting something from child stars and dropped the mic when she was done.
Damn… seeing fully grown adults wait outside the ‘Stranger Things’ kids’ hotels etc , and then abuse them when they don’t stop for them…
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
Is super weird A. What adult in their right mind waits for a CHILD outside their hotel and B is then is offended when the CHILD doesn’t stop
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
It doesn’t matter if they are an actor… they are kids first. Give them the space they need in order to grow without feeling like they owe
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
Anyone anything for living their childhood dreams
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
Oh and ps. Imagine.. you, a parent, walking with your 13 year old son/daughter and seeing a fully grown adult pointing their camera phone ..
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
.. at your kid. You would do anything you could to delete that persons photograph, and remove your child from that situation as soon as…
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
.. you could. It doesn’t matter if that child happens to be an actor and consented to a professional film crew capturing their moves when..
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
.. in character.. That does NOT mean that this child consented to being followed around with a camera in their face. I don’t care if it
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
“Comes with the job”. It doesn’t.
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
And how dare you shun and demean that child when they don’t pose for an adult strangers photograph or walk over and talk to them when they..
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
.. take that NOT CONSENTED FOR photo . Doesn’t that go against everything we teach our children anyway? Pshhhh. Some people man.
— Sophie Turner (@SophieT) November 6, 2017
Well done, Sophie! No celebrity owes us their time, and Wolfhard did say “Hi” to that strange adult yelling at him. In my mind, that was above and beyond what I would want my 13-year-old to do if she were famous. It would be difficult for me to avoid slapping the taste out of someone’s mouth for demanding anything from my child in her private life.
I would also like to use this as a reminder that Millie Bobby Brown is 13 and NOT SEXY OR TO BE SEXUALIZED, W MAGAZINE. We don’t want more Lindsay Lohans or Corey Haims on our hands, now do we?