Reflecting on the 35th anniversary of Stand By Me’s a premiere in May 2021, the voice actor for The Secret of NIMH told Yahoo! Movies, “I didn’t want to be an actor when I was a child.” “My parents compelled me to do it, specifically my mother.
My mother instructed me to enter her agency and tell the children’s agent, ‘I want to do what mommy does,’ as part of her coaching. And by a combination of my father’s extreme emotional abuse and my mother’s extensive manipulation of me, I was put in that position.”
