It’s all roses, electric sunshine and eye-popping paydays at the beginning. But growing up can be a particularly challenging process for those statistically high-risk human beings called “child actors.”

Once the dimples turn to pimples, one’s entire relationship to the universe reverses polarity, leaving some pint-sized thespians in a state of perpetual existential angst.

Cameron Bright is 17, which means he’s currently floating above the abyss, but the Victoria native who made significant waves with his bathtub scene opposite Nicole Kidman in Birth, and donned amber contacts as vampire aristocracy in New Moon, is decidedly grounded.

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