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An actor well known for playing characters in adult rated works decides to act in an all-ages work that they can show to their own children.
This often overlaps with Parental Bonus and Demographic-Dissonant Crossover. Kind of contrasts with Old Shame, only most of their work becomes an Old Shame (which might apply to someone who consciously stops doing a particular type of production for good and downplays or tries to ignore what they did before). Frequently overlaps with Self-Censored Release.
Rated G for Gangsta may be a subtrope if the performer decides to focus their career on family-friendly fare rather than the work that made them famous. If a person does work on a kid-oriented film or show, but they do not have any children of their own or their kids are older than the target demographic of the show they appeared on, that sort of role would be considered a "Sesame Street" Cred. See also Retroactive Recognition, for examples of when the kid show or film in question kicked off their acting career or was done before the celebrity was famous.
For some reason, this often gets conflated with Money, Dear Boy, despite the fact that children are in no part of the definition. While an actor might do a children's show because it pays well, it's only this trope if the actor's motivation is explicitly based on producing a work that can be enjoyed by children (usually their own). As such, Awesome, Dear Boy often has more to do with it, especially when it's a long-running children's show that holds nostalgia factor for them or a remake of a movie they grew up with. Can be the justification of Questionable Casting and Celebrity Voice Actor. At times has also been invoked in an attempt to break Typecasting. Related to Written for My Kids, where an author writes a work for their children, but there is still an important distinction: this is when the author is known for works targeting older audiences, and not written specifically with the author's child or children in mind. Compare to Promoted Fanboy, when the actor or actress partakes in a work because they were a fan of the franchise or company before getting the role.
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A variant: Shawn Michaels apparently did the SummerSlam 2002 Street Fight match with Triple H in order to show his son (who was 2 at the time) what his dad used to do before he was born (up to that point Shawn had been retired from ring action due to a serious back injury suffered at the 1998 Royal Rumble). You can see him wave into the camera as he enters the ring, presumably to his son who was watching from home. It was intended to be a one-off but afterwards, he found his back was able to handle the rigors of wrestling once more and continued his career all the way up to 2010's WrestleMania XXVI.
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Kevin Steen signing with WWE was partially for the money, but moreso for his son Owen, a huge fan of the promotion, to see him wrestle. Steen took the name Kevin Owens in honour of his son and his namesake, Owen Hart
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Joshua Malina took a guest role on iCarly, including a bikini dog food fight, for this reason.
May have been the reason for Jane Lynch's appearance as Pam Puckett, Sam's mom.
Jane Lynch's reason was sweeter and more awesome at the same time. In her wedding vows, she promised her partner to try and get tickets for the show for their kids. The show doesn't have a studio audience, so tickets were an impossibility. However, when the producer heard that, he was so flattered he decided to find a role for her so she could bring them. Up until that point, he had never planned to show Sam's mom on-screen, because he could never find an actress good enough. But when he thought about it, he realized Jane Lynch would be perfect for the role, and wrote the episode for her.
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In LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Stephen Amell reprised his role of Green Arrow partly because he wanted his daughter to see something that he'd been in; however, unlike some of these examples, Awesome, Dear Boy also comes into it to an extent.
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Kevin Dobson of Days of Our Lives fame took a role on Captain Kangaroo for his children.
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He also appeared on Jack's Big Music Show as a reporter doing a story on Groundhog Day because it was one of his son's favorite shows.
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Dragon Ball: In the Latin American Spanish dub of Dragon Ball, Mario Castañeda accepted the role of (adult) Goku after being convinced by his son Arturo (Mario actually had rejected the role when it was first offered by Gloria Rocha, the dub's director at the time). Two decades later, Arturo became the voice of Whis and is still proud of his father's work.
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Scrubs: The episode "My Princess", where Cox tells his son a bedtime story based on recent events at Sacred Heart, was written because Christa Miller (who plays Jordan) asked Bill Lawrence (the showrunner) to make an episode they could show to their kids.
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After Bill Irwin's son Patrick was born, he starred in an episode of Sesame Street and stayed as a part of the cast even after his son had outgrown the show, most notably playing Mr. Noodle in Elmo's World. He also appeared on an episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete and in the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for the same reason.
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Anthony Bourdain starred in episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba! and Sanjay and Craig so his daughter Ariane could watch something he was in.
Lina Cardellini also took roles on Sanjay And Craig after the birth of her daughter Lilah-Rose.
Bill Hader also starred on Yo Gabba Gabba for his daughter, since it was her favorite show. This wound up backfiring when she revealed that she was actually embarrassed by her dad's appearance.
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This is why the Polish studio Flying Wild Hog, after the gory Hard Reset and Shadow Warrior (2013), proceeded to create the kid-friendly Juju—they were tired of explaining to their children why they can't play any of Daddy's games. note Secret Service magazine, issue 97
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Phil and Kaja Foglio of Girl Genius fame have said that XXXenophile will probably be on hiatus until at least after their kids grow up.
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Frank Wildhorn, who composed the songs for Death Note: The Musical, admits he hadn't even heard of the original manga or anime when he was offered the job. He was convinced by his teenage son, who said it'd be "the coolest thing he'd ever done."
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Anna Tsuchiya, who performs Kamen Rider Fourze's theme song — her sons are big Kamen Rider fans, and so she decided 'why not?' and signed on.
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Dragon Ball Super: Gohan offers to replace a stunt double who's about to film a very dangerous shot. The primary reason he's doing it is that he's Made of Iron where the actor isn't, but the other reason (and the one he gives to the Muggle director and crew) is that he wants his infant daughter Pan to be able to watch her daddy in a professional movie one day.
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As mentioned in the page quote above, the anime adaptation of CLAMP's Angelic Layer allowed many of its actors to be able to show their work to their children, due to the show's lighthearted, childlike atmosphere being a significantly different direction from most of their roles in adult-oriented animation.
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Azusa Sato played the role of Fuwari Midorikaze in PriPara because her two-year-old niece was a huge fan of the series.
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Barney & Friends:
Sheryl Leach created Barney and the Backyard Gang after failing to find children's videos that held her son's attention.
Todd Haberkorn played Mr. Knickerbocker in the home video "Let's Make Music!" for his son, who was born the year prior to filming.
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Goldberg's 2016 return was so his wife and son could watch him wrestle. (He hadn't married or had his son until after his first retirement in 2004.)
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According to a segment on their show Akashiya-san Channel, manzai act FUJIWARA took a guest role in Smile Pretty Cure! because Toshifumi Fujimoto's daughter was a huge fan of the franchise and had a massive collection of merchandise, with the series in question, as well as Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and Heart Catch Pretty Cure, being her favorite series.
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He also played Skeletor in the live-action He-Man film for this reason. Of course, that was for more than just his kids; Langella has often identified Skeletor as his favorite role he's ever played, relishing the unique opportunities it offered.
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Doctor Who:
This goes as far back as the genesis of the show. William Hartnell, the First Doctor, took the part so his Grandkids could watch and because he wanted to get away from his typecasting as military types.
Whilst not actually having children himself, Christopher Eccleston accepted the role of the Ninth Doctor in the new series partly because he wanted a chance to spread his wings and do something light-hearted and fun that kids could watch after being known for his largely dark, brooding roles. Even then, his Doctor was pretty much the darkest and most brooding one yet. He went on record saying what touched him the most was the responses he got from children who watched him.
Likewise, Peter Capaldi might not have taken the role of the Twelfth Doctor because of his trope (his daughter being a bit too old for it to apply), but it did allow him to appear in something family-friendly after a career best known for edgy productions such as the F-bomb-filled The Thick of It. Since becoming the Doctor, Capaldi has generally stuck to appearing in family-friendly fare when not filming the show, such as Paddington (2014) and Paddington 2.
John Simm, whilst noted and having achieved critical acclaim for his serious dramatic work, accepted his role as the Master in order to impress his son. There's also a suspicion that he rather enjoyed the chance to ham it up in the process. This is a recurring theme for many British thespians who have appeared on the show, many (almost ruefully) noting that whilst they may be up there with the great Hamlets of the age, their appearance on Doctor Who is the only role their kids are interested in.
Simm's episodes were so filled with scares that he (reputedly) ended up forbidding his son from watching. His son likely got some idea of what happened in the episodes, given he got a lot of attention from his schoolmates because his dad was the Master.
Ben Browder signed on for "A Town Called Mercy" in part because his kids watched the show.
Example with a less famous actor in the classic series: Mary Peach appeared in "The Enemy of the World" because her kids wouldn't believe she was a real actress until she'd been on Doctor Who. Another actor in a Hartnell/Troughton-era story said pretty much the same thing.
Although it may not have been intended, British actress Charity Wakefield created this scenario over a one-month period between December 2016 and January 2017 when she acted in two adults-only miniseries engaging in nude sex scenes in Close To The Enemy and The Halcyon, but exactly midway between those broadcasts she took a guest-starring role in the decidedly family-friendly episode "The Return of Doctor Mysterio." Her co-star in the episode, Justin Chatwin, has a similar adults-only history, being best known for co-starring in the raunchy US cable series Shameless (US).
Emmy-winning writer Richard Curtis admitted that he wrote the episode "Vincent and the Doctor" for this exact reason.
Ben Wheatley directed Peter Capaldi's first two episodes because his son's a fan and he wanted to make something his son could see.
In a kind of related example, many of the actors appearing in the new series also come on the show because they used to religiously watch the show as kids and the chance to fulfill an old childhood ambition was just too good to pass up. Most notably, David Tennant — the Tenth Doctor — has publicly remarked that the entire reason he got into acting was so that he could one day play the Doctor. If Andy Bigstar wasn't a fan when he grew up, then his kid is now. It's kind of a win-win for the producers.
When Tennant appeared on Top Gear as Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, Clarkson asked if it really was true that David went into acting because as a child he wanted to be the Doctor, Tennant simply answered by asking, "Didn't everyone?" To which the audience erupted in loud cheering, naturally.
Olivia Colman has said in interviews that she took her role in "The Eleventh Hour" partially so that her children (who were young at the time) could watch her on screen; this backfired when she forgot about the monstrous CGI teeth they had added in post, and had to shut off the episode almost immediately when the kids panicked to see mummy as a monster.
Craig Parkinson said in an interview that he was pleased to be on the show for Series 13 as a villain, the Grand Serpent, so his ten-year-old son could watch him and hopefully be impressed at seeing his dad act.
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Niecy Nash appeared in That's So Raven and The Mighty B! for her daughter Dia.
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When Tennant appeared on Top Gear as Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, Clarkson asked if it really was true that David went into acting because as a child he wanted to be the Doctor, Tennant simply answered by asking, "Didn't everyone?" To which the audience erupted in loud cheering, naturally.
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While he doesn't have any children of his own, Mike Patton performed the vocals in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge's rendition of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon theme song, so that his nieces can enjoy music that he's made. Similarly to the LEGO Batman example above, the fact that he's already been a fan to start with is a bonus.
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