Lloyd played young Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s “Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.”
He said he wanted to turn the car off.
There was a lot of yelling and screaming.
Jake Lloyd in ‘The Phantom Menace’.courtesy Everett Collection
courtesy Everett Collection
The police got there, and they asked Jake some questions, she continued.
He was talking to them, but none of it made sense.
It was all word salad.
Jake Lloyd at a fan convention in 2011.Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic
Jake was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, with the neurological condition anosognosia complicating efforts at treatment.
When they finally told him, it totally threw him off into an even worse depression, Lloyd said.
It was really hard.
Everybody makes such a big deal about that," Lloyd said of the backlash.
Jake, for his part, didn’t seem to enjoy auditioning anymore.
People think Jake hatesStar Wars," Lloyd added.
“He loves it.
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