The “big” star says his family kept him from becoming pampered with a child actor

David Moscow says his family had many “boundaries” so he never had too much “Big“For his pants.

The actor, who played the role of young Tom Hanks in “Big” at the age of 12, could not spoil himself too much with the experience.

“My parents were very aware of what was happening,” says Moscow, 47, “and I had many rules, many boundaries. “If I wanted to keep playing, I had to get highs at school and stuff like that.”

Moscow, who grew up in New York, adds: “I think I was protected from a lot of wildness because growing up in a city can be quite crazy. You get on the subway at 8am, you don’t come home until, you know, at 7pm. A lot of trouble can happen there! “

The star of “Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane” also shares that any female attention at this age has been ignored.

“At 12, you don’t really know what to do with girls,” he jokes. “You know, they might like you, but you say,“ What? What we gonna do now?'”

And any extra attention he might have gotten from starring in the blockbuster comedy was lost at his school.

“I went to school in Harlem,” he explains. “If you weren’t a basketball player on the basketball team, they didn’t really care. In a way, it was fun too. I was modest in my high school.

Moscow is currently promoting its new book, “From the Basics: Adventures in Gathering, Hunting, Fishing and Foraging on a Fragile Planet,” which he wrote with his father Jon.

In it, he tells the story of four years spent on global culinary adventures that included milking a water buffalo in Italy, collecting oysters in Long Island Sound, and extracting honey from wild bees in Kenya.

Initially, the Newsies star says he was “looking for some kind of connection between people … they are all connected through food,” but soon realized that looking at how food is made is also “an insight into what is happening.” in relation to the environment. Especially around overfishing and climate change. ‘

Moscow says the book is “great fun” but it also has a serious side.

“There are many amazing discussions in the book about people who do things right,” he says.