Archived 'Star Wars' Actor Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin) Diagnosed with Schizophrenia (usmagazine.com)
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Archived 'Star Wars' Actor Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin) Diagnosed with Schizophrenia (usmagazine.com)
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[–] WhiteSoIMustBeRacist 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
This was known for a long time. It came out as news in June when he got arrested. What is amazing is that he's been in jail all this time on a $10,000 bond?
[–] Ser_Snow 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
He had threatened his mothers life previously, and while she declined to press charges, I don't think she was in any great hurry to get him out after that.
[–] RogerByam 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
That's right. Once the care of a schizophrenic is taken out of the the hands of the primary caregiver, and that caregiver can see that the ill is in (relatively) good hands, they aren't particularly interested in going back to fulltime care.
This is an all-too-familiar story from my experience:
The primary caregiver having their life threatened, refuses to get the authorities involved, eventual police intervention from some criminal offense outside the home and, finally, the ill getting the professional care they need.
A lot of the primary caregivers of schizophrenics suffer from a kind of Stockholm Syndrome; the caring gives their life purpose. It's quite sad for both the carer and the ill, because neither are able to live their life to their fullest.
I'm glad he is in the hand of professionals, his mother is getting a break and that such a change came-about without too much harm to anyone, including third-parties.
[–] WhiteSoIMustBeRacist ago
Yea but I think the bail was like $10,700 if I recall. That's got to suck sitting in jail for ten months not being able to raise that from family or friends.
[–] Sippio 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
From his interviews since entering adulthood, you can tell he's a pretty awkward guy, and very resentful for the life and identity he gained from starring in The Phantom Menace. In a way, I do feel a bit sorry for him. He was 10 when that movie came out, and from then on, he would be forever known as "the annoying kid from the biggest letdown in movie history". This means his classmates, teachers, neighbours, and random people on the streets saw him as that. Maybe if the movie wasn't a terrible disappointment, and Anakin was more likeable, his identity would have been seen more positively, but it was doomed from the start.
[–] ElspethTirel [S] 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
It figuratively kills me that he got so much shit for playing young Anakin. I thought he did a great job, especially in comparison to the other actors in the movie.
[–] SkepticalMartian 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
Star Wars stigma didn't just happen to him - for a long time after Natalie Portman couldn't get a job because directors became convinced she couldn't act. This was largely due to the extremely bad writing and directing of George Lucas who had convinced himself that he could do no wrong.
If you look at Jake Lloyd's filmography, after Star Wars he did a number of Star Wars-related videogame voiceover gigs, a movie you've probably never heard of, and then his career pretty much goes full stop. It's a good bet that Star Wars destroyed his career.
[–] PraiseIPU 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
10 years old and still a better actor than pretty boy older Annakin
[–] Jamie_Dodgems 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Don't blame the actors, blame George Lucas for writing some of the most wooden dialogue in a major motion picture and being far too entitled and big-headed to actually listen to feedback from his own crew.
Say what you want about TFA, but it bloody well benefits from having a creator who doesn't have Protection from Editors.
[–] XesilNex ago
I really don't understand why people didn't like the movie. Maybe it was because young me didn't really care for elegant dialogue.
[–] DelusionalHominids 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
If my life was defined by staring in a movie alongside a jackovasaur before I even hit puberty, I'd probably go crazy too.
[–] ArsCortica 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This is no longer podracing.
I'll show myself out.
[–] Gardmeria 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
bai
[–] Plant_Boy 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Frankly, I blame Jar Jar. No person should be exposed to that kind of character and he was for a long period at such a young age.
Feel sorry for the dude...