Here’s the thing about child stars: hopefully, they grow up.
“I don’t really care,” he said.
“It just means that people liked the character, and people still love the character.”
People do still care.
“Every day, I have a tour bus that comes around my house and stops.
you could hear them on their microphone.
If you don’t embrace it,” he said, “it’s going to destroy you.”
After all, he’s no longer the fresh-faced young kid he was in the 1980s.
Sure enough,the part of Bud Bundy originally went to a different actor.
The pilot didn’t quite work, however, and producers were looking to recast the show.
“It didn’t work out with them, lucky for me, thank God,” Faustino recalled.
His new agent convinced him to audition again.
Things went Faustino’s way this time, and he got the part.
“I’m excited for that next great role.
Despite the possible prison sentence hanging over his head, Faustino didn’t seem too worried.
He spent the night in jail, and the disorderly intoxication charge was dropped.
The following year,The Associated Pressreported that Faustino was no longer in any legal trouble.
“We all made really good money while we were doing it,” he admitted toAccess.
“We made great weekly paychecks.”
That meant no residuals.
Thankfully, though, Faustino isn’t exactly hurting for money these days.
Still, he told LA Weekly that he wishes he were more successful again.
“I mean, yeah, I’ve made some pretty decent investments, so I feel comfortable financially.
But is that enough?”
he pondered before answering his own question.
“No, not really because, you know, I like the attention and the fame.
That’s part of the whole package.”
That was in 1999; by 2004, they married at a chapel in Las Vegas.
Unfortunately, the marriage did not last.
Faustino filed for divorce in February 2007 and petitioned the court not to have to pay his ex-wife anything.
The reason for the dissolution of the marriage, he said, was “irreconcilable differences.”
TMZposted the divorce court documents later that year.
By that point, Faustino and Elmer had, apparently, “duly executed a Marital Settlement Agreement.”
On the show, Elmer runs off with rapper Coolio, which Faustino acknowledged wasn’t true to life.
“Coolio is sneaky, though; he could’ve, and I don’t know about it.”
The show only lasted twelve episodes.
Still, it was well-received.
“People really, really love it,” Faustino told Access.
Perhaps most notably, he appeared on two episodes of “Entourage” and returned for the movie.
Faustino has also dipped his toe in the reality television pool.
At the time, Faustino was proud of how he looked in his military gear.
“My pants were a little baggy, though.”
There are some things, however, that Faustino simply won’t do.
“She’s an amazing baby, but there are some nights that are crazy,” he said.
The “Married… With Children” star frequently shares his daughter on his social media.
The following February, he shared apictureof a yawning baby, writing, “Introducing Cassius Bronson Faustino.
Welcome to planet Earth, little man.”
“He added, “It’s been great to me.
It’s been, you know, my second career …
It’s been a great, great gift.”
Faustino works from home in a studio that can be connected online to any recording session anywhere else.
At first, Faustino said, he wasn’t sure about switching lanes.
“In that sense, my ego was bothered by it.”
Unsurprisingly, David Faustino was into rap, too.
“He took it every night,” Faustino told LA Weekly.
“He won for weeks in a row; people couldn’t beat him.
He became a big star at Balistyx, and then Eazy-E signed him.”
Faustino is still involved in music these days.
It’s been something I’ve been wanting to do but putting off for years.”
“At this age, would he have a kid?
Would he still be living in that house?
All four of the original leads were expected to return to voice their characters, including Faustino.
Faustino acknowledged that he sees one upside to the show continuing in this format.
