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Youngster star Justin Cooper, whose declare to fame is taking part in Jim Carrey’s son within the 1997 movie “Liar, Liar” when he was 8 years outdated, revealed in a current interview on the “Not So Little Rascals” podcast that he acquired disturbing fan mail from prisoners when he was only a child.
“My mother did a very good job of type of, like, shielding me from stuff, you already know,” he advised co-hosts Jordan Warkol and Blake Collins (who starred in 1994’s “The Little Rascals”) when requested if there have been any “overwhelming” or “scary” moments of childhood fame.
“She would inform me in a while about, like, jail mail that I might get that she by no means confirmed me,” Cooper advised a shocked Warkol and Collins.
“Like, letters from folks in jail, like, speaking about … you already know … dudes in jail speaking about how they’re such large followers of me and, like, I’m such a cute child.”
The co-hosts known as the weird postage “subsequent stage” and “wild.”
Cooper, 37, went on to reward his mom for by no means leaving him alone with anybody on movie or TV units in an business the place some mother and father inform their children to “do no matter they let you know to do.”
The actor, who additionally starred because the titular character in 1998’s direct-to-video “Dennis the Menace Strikes Once more,” additionally opened up about how childhood fame affected his life after the discharge of “Liar, Liar.”
“I couldn’t actually go wherever in public. I loved it. I assumed it was cool,” Cooper stated.
He admitted it “in all probability irritated” his household “a bit of bit extra,” recalling how folks would line up at their hometown buffet to ask for his autograph.
Outdoors of “Liar, Liar,” Cooper’s lengthier TV credit embody roles on “The Boys Are Again” and “Brother’s Keeper” within the ’90s, although he additionally made one-off appearances in “Full Home,” “ER,” “Common Hospital” and “Boy Meets World” all through the last decade.
His most up-to-date credit score is a 2003 episode of “The Observe.”
Nowadays, Cooper is an govt producer on “The Ben Maller Present” on FOX Sports activities Radio.
Along with Cooper and Carrey, “Liar, Liar” starred Maura Tierney, Cary Elwes and Jennifer Tilly, amongst others.
Cooper was nominated for greatest efficiency in a characteristic movie for an actor aged 10 or below on the Younger Artist Awards for his work within the Tom Shadyac-directed film.
