Was Phantom a real Menace to young actor, Jake Lloyd?

I guess it was.
As much as I dig the prequels, I confess the acting - mainly on Phantom Menace - was pretty feeble. Actors's lines sounded much more robotic than the ones spoken by the droid's themselves.

Before his part as Anakin Skywalker, I had watched Jingle All The Way starring governor Wolfcastle and he played it much better than he did on Phantom. I mean, I think the directing and screenplay left a lot to be desired and in my opinion this issue ended up ruining Lloy's future as actor. Bottom line, I'm not assuming he could be the best kid actor ever but I suppose that critics panned him worse than he deserved.
Any similar thoughts?

 

I think the line "Whoopee!!" hurt his career more than he'll ever know.

Seriously, he's probably no longer that cute little kid. No doubt he's gone through puberty and is stuck in one of those awkward periods. Maybe he'll surface again once he's in his 20s.

 

You see him in quite a number of episodes during the first three years of E.R. He did not have much more to do than being a kid. The show was co-produced by Amblin, so it's easy to see the connection to Lucas...

He doesn't have to make movies you know, there's always amazing TV shows waiting for an actor of his stature.

 

I sure hope he went through puberty: he'll be 19 in a couple of months!

Dunno if "TPM" hurt his career or not. According to IMDB, he worked for a couple of years after that but has been MIA since 2001. Maybe he and/or his parents just decided show business wasn't the way to go?

I don't think he was ever very talented - I thought he was pretty bad in "Jingle All the Way" as well, and that was a much easier role. (Granted, he was significantly younger at the time.) I'm sure he was a nice kid, but it's not a loss to the film community that he didn't work more...

 

Yup, I was right.

 

"governor Wolfcastle"

 

That photo is strange. He looks like a 10-year-old with a beard.

 

Corey Feldman, is that you?

 

Yes, that was a global feeling. Anyway, who wrote this line? I bet he didn't improvise.

 

They are the same fella, aren't they?