Not exact matches
The two leads are
precocious in a way more typical of
child actors than actual
children.
On the
child -
actor scale that runs from «irritatingly
precocious stage - school kid» to «Dakota Fanning,» Jacob Tremblay is one of the few who falls into an extra special category: the «where - on - Earth - did - they - find - this - kid - and - how - does - he - give - a-performance-like-this» category.
For some in the right age group, maturing alongside Harry can be life - defining — tracking their own growth by seeing Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, among other young
actors on the films, transform from
precocious children to charming adults over the course of the series.
It also has two unusually
precocious — and more atypically non-annoying —
child actors in Moretz (Kick - Ass) and Smit - McPhee (The Road), both of whom are comfortable with adult material.