Ebook: You look like that girl: a child actor escapes from Hollywood

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1 Big Eyes = Career; Chapter 2 5th Grade Career Building; Chapter 3 The Show Must Go On. Really.; Chapter 4 My Love Is Blind; Chapter 5 Life Imitates Art; Chapter 6 I Am Not Applicable; Chapter 7 Becoming "That Girl"; Chapter 8 You Owe Me; Chapter 9 Open Door Policy; Chapter 10 Please Wait at the Bottom of the Ocean; Chapter 11 Professional Pretender; Chapter 12 Playing with Danger; Chapter 13 I'm Not Your Actress; Chapter 14 It All Comes Down to a List; Chapter 15 Love. No Quotation Marks.; Chapter 16 When Even Work Wasn't Working.;At the age of twenty-two, Lisa Jakub had what she was supposed to want: she was a working actor in Los Angeles. She had more than forty movies and TV shows to her name, she had been in blockbusters likeMrs. DoubtfireandIndependence Day, she walked the red carpet and lived in the house she bought when she was fifteen. But something was missing. Passion. Purpose. Happiness. Lisa had been working since the age of four, after a man approached her parents at a farmer's market and asked her to audition for a commercial. That chance encounter dictated the next eighteen years of her unusual- and frequent.