Jake Lloyd: "My entire school life was really a living hell." — Page 3

I never bought Lucas had Anakin be nine-years-old because it was more "dramatic" that way, and that that was his intention all along.

It's clear that in ROTJ, when Obi-Wan says, "when I first met your father, he was already a great pilot", Lucas envisioned Anakin be older, around Luke's age, certainly not anywhere near nine. To cover up that fact he initially had no idea about Anakin being that young  in TPM, he has one of the first things Anakin says be "I'm a pilot, ya know, and I'm gonna fly away from here!"

Also, if being dramatic is your goal, you wouldn't hire a kid, give him crappy dialogue to say, and probably give him no more direction than "ok kid, here's your line, ok ya said it, good, cut, print!"  You'd really go out of your way to work with the kid, trying to coax a good performance out of him, which it's clear Lucas had little care for in the end.

adywan said:

Looks like The Sun (where the article first originated) has yet again been making crap up. :

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=411096898907652&id=135520326465312

Way to go spoiling all of our fun there, dude! We were having a good time piling on.  And then you come along with this wacko conspiracy stuff saying that the mainstream media lies.  Shame on you!

adywan said:

Looks like The Sun (where the article first originated) has yet again been making crap up. :

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=411096898907652&id=135520326465312

Here's The Sun article.  They claim "a magazine" as their source:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/4170549/Star-Wars-Anakin-Skywalker-star-Jake-Lloyd-I-will-never-act-again.html

I don't know who to believe.  Is The Sun a tabloid?

It seems whenever an actor speaks out against GL, a denial/retraction/clarification/apology is issued after a few days.

The Sun is probably the most infamous red top left since it's sister paper The News Of The World was put out of our misery for hacking the telephones of child murder victims and the parents of abducted kids.

It a paper so vile that even budgies of little refinement refuse to crap on it out of fear that the act of defecating processed Trill might be misconstrued as an endorsement.

evan1975 wrote: They claim "a magazine" as their source:

This could be the source:

http://www.blackbookmag.com/movies/don-t-expect-to-see-the-phantom-menace-s-jake-lloyd-ever-act-again-1.45583

They have the an old interview video at the bottom.  The article contains some of the quotes (from the video ...creepy) and others are interpretations.  and the rest could be real but we'll probably never know.

and the blackbookmag points to:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2110383/Anakin-Skywalker-actor-Jake-Lloyd-Star-Wars-fame-turned-life-living-hell.html

which i guess is a direct competitor of the Sun so that's why they've referenced the mag instead of the mail.

In the vein of prequel actors talking about TPM.  Ewan McGregor sez:

I was happy to be in them.

http://www.slashfilm.com/film-interview-ewan-mcgregor-talks-salmon-fishing-yemen-jack-giant-killer-star-wars

...f a s c i n a t i n g...

Let's get this straight Ewan is in a CGI heavy re-envisioning of one of my favourite childhood films?

Here we go again.

Having met Jake on more than one occasion I can say he's definitely a nice guy.

Honestly, when I look back at all the hysteria about the prequel trilogy I'm a bit embarassed. Yeah, they're not great, but they're also not as bad as people thought 10 years ago. Far worse things have hit the screen since that time including Twilight and Avatar(d).

I remember getting into a 10 page argument with some wanker on this forum just because I dared to say that I took my kids to see the Clone Wars movie and we all had a good time. Apparently that's blasphemy in the eyes of certain ass pained faboys.

Crygor64 said:I remember getting into a 10 page argument with some wanker on this forum just because I dared to say that I took my kids to see the Clone Wars movie and we all had a good time. Apparently that's blasphemy in the eyes of certain ass pained faboys.

Crygor64 said:

Having met Jake on more than one occasion I can say he's definitely a nice guy.

Honestly, when I look back at all the hysteria about the prequel trilogy I'm a bit embarassed. Yeah, they're not great, but they're also not as bad as people thought 10 years ago. Far worse things have hit the screen since that time including Twilight and Avatar(d).

I remember getting into a 10 page argument with some wanker on this forum just because I dared to say that I took my kids to see the Clone Wars movie and we all had a good time. Apparently that's blasphemy in the eyes of certain ass pained faboys.

So....TCW > Avatar.

Is this a page at TFN or a LFL press release? 

This is definitely an opinion that the phrase, "Different strokes for different folks" was created for. 

That's fine if that's your opinion - I'm sure that there's at least one person out there who thinkw TCW is better than ESB, too - but I'm sure you also understand that you're in a vanishingly small minority, and so declaring that opinion is going to accomplish little more than make some people think you're just trying to ruffle feathers or (more likely) brag about how unique you are.

SilverWook said:

Let's not fight old battles, or retread old arguments in this thread?

That's fine.  I just don't believe that anybody who believes the Clone Wars movie (an unmitigated flop) is better than the biggest hit in the history of motion pictures could be shocked ("Shocked!") that other people would be surprised at that predilection.  It's just phony, is all.  And I just wanted to just say that.  But I won't carry on about it anymore.  The facts speak for themselves.

"""Unfortunately, Star Wars fans were less than thrilled about meeting Darth Vader as an adorable young moppet, and they soon laid into him with a rancor uncharacteristic of Star Wars fans, except those Star Wars fans whose favorite character is the Rancor."""

...I have yet to meet the fan who's favorite character is the Rancor...  I would love to chat with one, that would be quite interesting... :D :D :D

Mommie Dearest was indeed panned when it came out, so much so that Faye Dunaway refused to talk about for years (I haven't brought up the subject in a while so I'm no longer sure if this is still the case).