Good To See Young Anakin Skywalker Is Doing Well

Independent - Jake Lloyd, the actor who played a young Anakin Skywalker and budding Podracer in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has been arrested after ‘an insane car chase that ended when [he] plowed into some trees.’ Lloyd was driving in Charleston, South Carolina, when officers signalled for him to pull over, only for the 26-year-old to gun it and lead a chase that went on for miles into another county, according to TMZ.  Lloyd lost control of the car at the end of the chase, running off the road, smashing through a fence and striking several trees. He is now in custody, having been arrested for reckless driving, failure to stop, resisting arrest and driving without a license. WTOP  - The man had not posted bond and remained in jail Sunday evening, Strickland said. Lloyd said in a 2012 interview that the role he performed when he was 10 years old made his youth hellish because he was bullied by other children. His last acting credit was in 2005, according to IMDB.com.

Good to see young Ani is doing well and hasn’t spiraled into an out of control mess like most child actors do. Maybe this is what he needed though to get his career back on track. No such thing as bad publicity. I don’t get why he doesn’t just play it up that he was the kid in the Star Wars movie. There has to be a ton of money and pussy in that. Hopefully this is his wakeup call. Gets his name back in the news a little bit, realizes people still know who he is, and boom, he’s traveling the nerd circuit, signing autographs, staring in a few straight to DVD movies. He was given a life at 10 years old by George Lucas, it’s really hard to ruin that. Oh no, a few assholes when he was 10 “bullied” him. I don’t even get how that makes an iota of sense. Bro, you were young Darth Vader. How does a kid bully you? You can’t bully someone with the greatest job in the world, it’s impossible. Show them the check you cashed for staring in the biggest movie of the year. That usually hushes the crowd.