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Originally posted by: jawaewokgungan
- choosing Jake Lloyd over Mason Gamble to play Anakin.
Did Dennis the Menace even audition for the role?
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Originally posted by: jawaewokgungan
- casting Natalie Portman. An inexperienced child actress at the time who had no sci-fi or action film experience to play a pivotal role in the movies.
'Inexperienced'? Oh, do you mean 'critically acclaimed'? Actually, since Natalie Portman had both sci-fi and action film experience before playing Amidala, I think you must be thinking of a different teen actress and movie, my guess is Carrie Fisher in ANH.
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Originally posted by: jawaewokgungan
- Casting the extremely inexperienced (especially with big screen films) Hayden Christenson instead of Ryan Phillipe.
OK, I think I know why I didn't understand where you were coming from in the previous quote, you think an actor or actress needs to appear in 12 films before they are considered 'experienced'. In my world, six cinematic releases is experienced, not 'extremely inexperienced'.
I think the casting was great, George Lucas simply isn't a good actor director, something he himself has admitted numerous times. The only alternate reality I can consider had Lucas not made the decisions you've posted is that you'd be complaining about how he should have cast Jake Lloyd over Dennis the Menace and Hayden Christensen over Ryan Phillipe!