The star of "Abbott Elementary", Tyler James Williams, says that the career as an actor of the children was "traumatic"
He was in therapy to face the renters of the fame that came with everyone hates Chris.
Today, Tyler James Williams At 30 years old and in his second season to play the first year professor Gregory Eddie in the successful sitcom, Abbott Elementary . But the acclaimed comedy is hardly its role of escape. From 12 to 17 years old, the actor was the head of Everyone hates Chris , play a young fictitious version of the actor Chris Rock . While he went to adult celebrity, a foreigner might think of Williams as a star child Success Story, but his trip was more complicated than that.
In a new interview with Gq ,, Williams reflected the celebrity of children , which he characterized as "traumatic". Now, as an adult actor with a program that also uses children, he is dedicated to ensuring that they have safer experience. Read the rest to see what the star had to say about her early career.
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Williams says he feels "triggered" often because of his young fame.
THE Gq The journalist notes that they tried to find a word other than "traumatic" to talk about the celebrity of children with Williams, but the actor replied: " was traumatic. I am always triggered by things that are part of everyone's childhood. Whenever someone approaches me, no matter what he recognizes me, what it tells me at the moment is that I am seen. I must be, immediately, because someone looks at. "" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The Golden Globe winner also shared that the specific era in which he became famous Everyone hates Chris Made the situation even more intense. "The time it was happening was at the same time that the Internet was becoming more anchored in industry," he said. “While I go through the most difficult years of my life, everyone sees it. I think my voice was constantly cracked during the seasons two and three. I was trying to find myself in front of everyone. And everyone had an opinion and got used to theirs. ""
He also feared that Everyone hates Chris Could have been the strongest in his career. (In fact, he said that a producer of the show told him that he "probably never worked.") He took a leave and was more selective with his roles because of this.
He works through trauma in therapy.
Williams has shared that he had been in therapy for years to tackle his problems.
"Hypervigilance was one of the things we have to approach, because I would listen to everyone's conversation in a room," said the star. "I could hear my name mentioned by two, three tables. I could see how many people timed me when I entered the door. And it's not healthy."
In an anterior interview with Bustle, Williams explained that The assessment of children's celebrity is not always visible. "We are not as chaotic as I think that most of the children actors get [reputation], but that does not necessarily mean that we have adapted well," he said about himself and his two younger brothers, Tyrel And Tylen Williams , which also acted as a child. "We had a lot to work, and many therapists received a lot of money from me."
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He has also dealt with physical health problems.
Williams was diagnosed with Crohn's disease , whose symptoms can be aggravated by stress. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery to have part of his intestine withdrawn in their twenties. In his agitation interview, Williams said the pressure he was in his career exacerbated the problem.
"It was the upright fight and what looks like my career and my life," said Williams. "Because [acting] is the only thing I love like that. I lost six inches of my intestines."
He supports children actors on Abbott .
Abbott Elementary Consecrators widely on teachers and administrators of the Philadelphia public school in which he is ready, but of course, there are children actors who play students. Williams explained to Gq The work on the series was a form of catharsis and that it also made a point to ensure that the experience of his young co-stars is more positive than his.
"" Abbott , in general, was therapeutic for me, "he told the magazine." I needed to know that I could influence that it was done differently. ""
Although he made the jump in an adult career - and on one of the biggest television programs, to that - Williams is still not completely comfortable to be in the eyes of the public. "I am an introvert in the soul, so it's always difficult," he said. "I think that's something I learned to face, but I never learned to kiss."
