"Boy Meets World" and "White Chicks" star Maitland Ward says young actors in the "Hollywood machine" were treated like a "product."
The actress, who appears in a Monday, April 27, episode of Investigation Discovery's docuseries "Hollywood Demons" dubbed "Child Stars Gone Wild," recently told Fox News Digital that her experience as a young star was "such a different animal" than what today's stars likely go through.
"Back then, I think they looked at these young actors as property coming in," Ward, 49, told the outlet in an interview published Tuesday, April 26. "And I really believe the studios, they wanted to mold and form these young actors into what they wanted them to be, what they needed them to be for the company and for the audience, to what they felt would identify with."
The actress, who starred as Rachel McGuire on the ABC series, was 21 to around 23 years old during her time on the show.
She continued, "I think it was such a factory kind of environment. Like you were just a product being sold, and you knew that yourself."
