On the one hand it's entirely possible that none of his peers knew he was in the film. I'm sure he wouldn't exactly be broadcasting his role in this film but while there's simple ways around it, children wouldn't have been technically allowed to view it nor would children have been lining up to see this film. In fact, hardly anyone went to see it as it was a box office bomb. Even Mark Dightam was technically not allowed to view the film when it was released because he was under 15.Nospeedo wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2026 3:53 pm So what’s your life like in the next few years after you do a scene like this? This wasn’t an obscure movie. Not a blockbuster like Rosemary’s Baby but people saw it. Probably a lot of people you know.
For next several years you’ll know that all your teachers saw it. Maybe there’s an attractive teacher who you have a crush on and you’ll know that when they see you they’ll picture you in the bath.
What about the other students? They have probably seen the movie.
And you’re still acting. Most certainly your costars and the crews on your future projects saw it. It’s a Roman Polanski movie!
This will all go away in seven or eight years. It’ll be the past and you were a kid. But when you’re still that kid it must be extremely embarrassing.
But imagine if one of them did. Imagine as he entered middle school one of the girls told him she saw him in the film, and he had to look her in the eye if he was even able to after hearing that and hope she wouldn't be malicious and tell other kids. Just by saying 'I saw you in Macbeth' says so much more than the specific words of that sentence. She would be saying she saw everything at a very sensitive time in his life. It may never have happened but the fact that even the possibility was set up feels wrong.
Also, high schools all over the world still show this specific version all the time. Assuming the film was watched from beginning to end, there's no telling how many people have seen this boy completely naked. The thing I still can't get past is the specific director being who he is. I have to question his intentions with this 'artistic' choice he made given 5 or 6 years later he was arrested for sexual abuse of a minor.