Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale wanted to ban her daughter from auditioning for a movie in case she didn’t get the part.
Producers on Everybody’s Fine needed a young actress to portray Kate’s character as her younger self and asked if Lily, then eight, would try out.
Kate feared Lily might be upset if she didn’t get the part, but the youngster managed to change her mother’s mind.
Kate explained: “They needed flashbacks of all of us being children and they asked me if my daughter Lily would audition. I said no because I thought she’d be on the set, and if she didn’t get it, it would be such a disaster.
“But she insisted on auditioning, and got it, and had her three scenes with Robert De Niro, which I thought was absolutely wild at the age of eight.”
[Source]
