'I Don't Love Acting Anymore'
6:00 AM PDT 10/9/2012 by Daniel Miller
How the once promising child star, embroiled in one scandal after another, has raised troubling questions about how the Hollywood system cares for its young.
Amanda Bynes was trying to make a change. In August 2008, the former teen star parted ways with her talent agency CAA and began making the rounds at several others that were vying to represent the actress. Coming off of the 2007 hit Hairspray and a handful of modestly successful teen comedies, Bynes was widely coveted by agencies that saw a lot of upside in the former Nickelodeon television star. But, according to a high-level agency source who was present at one of the meetings Bynes took with her father in tow, the then-22-year-old actress was deeply frustrated with her lot in Hollywood.
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