‘Big’ star says family stopped him becoming a spoiled child actor

David Moscow says his family set a lot of “boundaries” so he never got too “Big” for his britches.

The actor, who nabbed the part of the young Tom Hanks in “Big” at age 12, wasn’t allowed to get too spoiled by the experience.

“My parents were very aware of what was going on,” Moscow, 47, tells Page Six, “and I had a lot of rules, a lot of boundaries. “If I wanted to keep acting, I needed to get A’s in school and that kind of thing.”

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

The “Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane” star also shares that any female attention he got around at that age was ignored.

“At 12, you don’t really know what (to do) with girls,” he jokes. “You know, they may like you but you’re like, ‘What? What do we do now?’”

And any extra attention he may have garnered 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. So in a sense, that was kind of cool as well. I was low-key in my high school.”

Moscow is currently promoting his new book, “From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet,” which he co-wrote with his father, Jon.

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

Initially, the “Newsies” star says that he was “looking for a sort of connectively among people … everyone’s connected via food” but soon realized that looking into how food is produced is also a “glimpse into what’s going on regarding the environment. Particularly around overfishing and climate change.”

Moscow says that the book is a “lot of fun” but also has a serious side.

“There’s a lot of amazing discussions in the book about people that are doing things correctly,” he says.