r/MadeMeSmile • u/moonpies4everyone • 27d ago

This letter from Ron Howard to Newsweek after they grilled 9 year old Jake Lloyd’s performance in The Phantom Menace. Favorite People

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u/MakingItElsewhere 27d ago

I'm not a star wars fan. I'm a star trek fan. We often don't get along. But the one thing we mostly agree on is that kid deserved no hate for that movie. He did a great job with what he was given.

Some fans really are just toxic.

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u/DrunkOctopUs91 27d ago

They did the same to Will Wheaton. I believe he now runs a recovery support group for child actors. He paved the way for a lot of the stuff we are finding out about Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. It’s fucked how they treat children in Hollywood.