What does "子役の闇" mean?


a few days ago I find out that the term "子役の闇" exist, but I can't quite
understand its meaning. I have seen it used on places like twitter and 2ch but
it seems there's no English equivalent for this. I guess a literal translation
would be something like "The desperation of the child actor" or something
along those lines but I'm not sure about it and I don't think it makes much
sense in English.

Can someone help me out?

Thanks




闇{やみ} is often colloquially used to mean "deep, dark secrets"."unknown, unseen
side (negative)" or "the dark side".

So in your example, 子役{こやく}の闇{やみ} means the "the dark side of child actors".
People would use that when discussing bad things happening in the child actor
industry.

There is also a term [N]の闇{やみ}が深{ふか}い, meaning [N] has some dark secret, or
sometimes just that there is something doesn't seems quite right (and
therefore there must be some deep, dark secret somewhere).




闇{やみ} is often colloquially used to mean "deep, dark secrets"."unknown, unseen
side (negative)" or "the dark side".

So in your example, 子役{こやく}の闇{やみ} means the "the dark side of child actors".
People would use that when discussing bad things happening in the child actor
industry.

There is also a term [N]の闇{やみ}が深{ふか}い, meaning [N] has some dark secret, or
sometimes just that there is something doesn't seems quite right (and
therefore there must be some deep, dark secret somewhere).

