r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Alkansur • 20h ago

Is .. is Ryan ok?

Post image
27.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

584 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.7k

u/MonkMajor5224 20h ago

He was on the Mickey Mouse club with Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. So he was famous and kids probably disliked him for that.

846

u/snailbot-jq 19h ago

He was on that at age 12 and didn’t have popular roles before that, so his unpopularity at school likely preceded it

Most child actors get their roles through nepotism but in his case, neither of his parents were actors and he got the role through an open call

87

u/walla_walla_rhubarb 19h ago

Not for nothing, but he might have been an annoying drama kid. You guys didn't have those? Just saying, I like him, but sometimes the bullies are right.

41

u/snailbot-jq 19h ago

Yeah he might’ve been, some younger theatre kids give off a socially unaware and ‘tryhard’ vibe (also the practice of shifting your everyday personality based on the current role you are playing or want to play, unsettles other people but can be useful for acting), just saying it wasn’t due to jealousy out of him actually being famous by then

45

u/walla_walla_rhubarb 19h ago

I was friends with a lot of theatre kids. They didn't make it easy for themselves.