She was a child star in every sense: Tatum O’Neal was only nine when cameras rolled for 1973’s “Paper Moon,” but she stole nearly every scene. Playing opposite her dad, superstar Ryan O’Neal, and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, it was her first-ever film. And it wasn’t easy for her, or anyone else on the set. “A lot of those takes took 40 takes,” O’Neal said. “I didn’t really read very well during the film.” “Everybody hated you, on set?” asked correspondent Tracy Smith. “Pretty much, yeah,” she replied. “Until they saw, like, what they had. And then they were like, ‘Oh, now we love her!'” Moses (Ryan O’Neal) and Addie (Tatum O’Neal) pull a scam on an unfortunate cashier in “Paper Moon”: And at the Oscars in 1974, the Academy loved her, too. But when asked if she had any idea, at age 10, what it meant to win that Oscar – becoming the youngest ever to win in a competitive category – O’Neal said, “No idea.” Still, she was pretty poised for a ten-year-old, and her acceptance speech was an example of brevity that winners tonight could probably learn from: “All I really want to thank is my director,… Read full this story
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