Bingowings said:

TV's Frink said:

corellian77 said:

On the topic of Anakin, I always thought the other little dude who tried out for the part (as seen in the "Beginning" documentary that came with TPM) would've made a much better Anakin.

I've always thought that too.

^ This!

He pitched his delivery of the scene perfectly he even made the crappy dialogue sound plausible (essential in a Star Wars cast member).

I just looked up that screen test. The kid above did a much better job. He seemed to have some depth and natural ability. It's shocking to me how poorly the casting was handled. Lloyd was nothing more than a script reader, and a mediocre one at best. Nothing even close to natural sounding. Weird how badly they missed the mark.

Something else that seems just as insane is how they sort of casually mention that they interviewed 3000 kids and that it took three years. Lucas will spend three years casting one character - yet turn around and handle major plot elements in an afternoon. No wonder Phantom is so terrible.

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