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/ancrm114d 27d ago

Everyone was given shit to work with. Hayden just could not polish that turd as well as other actors.

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u/Gold-Stomach-4657 27d ago edited 27d ago

I love Star Wars but I only think 4 actors overcame the poor dialogue in the saga: Ewan McGregor, Harrison Ford, Ian MacDermid, and James Earl Jones.

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u/Vark675 27d ago

Ewan McGregor somehow managed to make the sentence "You were supposed to be the chosen one!" actually work.

What an absolutely hamfisted, dumbass line. And it doesn't get nearly as much flak as it should, because he somehow nailed it. But the line is literally just "YOU WERE THE PLOT MCGUFFIN!"

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u/Rum____Ham 27d ago

I actually kinda like the line. They were basically best friends and father and son at the same time. After that relationship came to a horrific end, all Obi had left was the pain and confusion of being betrayed by a prophecy.

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u/Slap_My_Lasagna 27d ago

"I HATE YOU!"

"You were my brother, Anakin.. I loved you..."

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u/OldOutlandishness434 27d ago

They didn't act like father and son, which was part of the problem. They were more like brothers when Anakin probably needed a father figure like Qui-Gon.

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u/Fit_Heat_591 26d ago

Yeah, Anakin was constantly bitching about obi. Definitly more of a sibling relationship.