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Natascha Ochsenknecht Says She Wouldn’t Put Children Into Acting Today

She told the feinstoff podcast that constant social media and permanent online records now make it much harder to protect child performers.

Overview

  • On Thursday, July 16, 2026, Ochsenknecht told Guido Maria Kretschmer on the feinstoff podcast that she would not send children into public acting roles at a young age today.
  • She confirmed her sons Jimi Blue and Wilson Gonzalez began as child actors in the Die Wilden Kerle films in 2003 at about 11 and 13 years old.
  • Ochsenknecht said on-set schooling and parental supervision were provided then, and that she and her then-husband Uwe kept a close watch and she often traveled to shoots.
  • She contrasted that era’s episodic print coverage with today’s nonstop online exposure, saying social media and the permanence of internet records make privacy and protection far harder.
  • Her comments are a personal reassessment rather than a call for new rules, and they highlight how modern digital visibility may change parental choices and industry care for young performers.