Film: Newswire: Star Wars: Episode I actor Jake Lloyd has been through "living hell," according to Jake Lloyd
When he was hired at the tender age of 8 to play the lead in
Star Wars: Episode I, Jake Lloyd wanted nothing more than to take the iconic character of Darth Vader and reveal his heretofore-unexplored inner, giddy child who really enjoyed pod-racing, laughing, and saying, “Yippee!”—thus establishing a dramatic bookend to his innocence-destroying, “Nooooooo!” 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.
But ...
