There's leaked footage where you can see Hayden Christiansen doing the grueling process of giving different line reads over and over again and Lucas keeps picking the worst one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Lucas’ background as a documentary filmmaker explains this. Often he wasn’t interested in which performances were the best, but which ones felt the most “real.”
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Replying to @Elpico72 @BootlegGirl and
Yeah there's this footage of an actual experienced child actor reading for Anakin and doing an actual good job and then he passes on him in favor of Jake Lloyd, who sounds like he barely understands the script, because he's so "natural" and "unrehearsed"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72 and
You can see it's mainly just that he's besotted with how adorable Jake Lloyd is and the expression on his face through the audition is kind of unfortunate given what we know about the whole wanting Marion to be 12 situation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Well yeah, and there’s also the casting of Portman, who had a kinda creeper fan contingent back in the ‘90s.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @BootlegGirl and
The whole general situation of making both characters absurdly young compared to what people had expected
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I think Lucas never really intended the age difference to be more than 3-4 years, but Portman acts so much more mature than Lloyd that the notion of these two ever hooking up at any age seems grossly inappropriate
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Replying to @Elpico72 @BootlegGirl and
It's a five year gap, he's 9 and she's 14 Which is one of those things that becomes less and less of an issue as both parties age, but when they actually hook up at the age of 19 and 24 is still pretty iffy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72 and
And yeah the age gap was bigger irl in TPM - Lloyd was actually 8 but Portman was 16 - which doesn't help As Lucas helpfully reminded us re: Marion, there's a pretty big difference between 14 and 16
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72 and
Portman was 18 in 1999, though I suppose she was younger during filming. And as has already been said, she played the role so much older. I spent most of the film being weirded out that these two people were eventually going to have sex.
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Most of the principal photography was two years before release with an unusually long post-production (which at the time was said to be because the FX were so state of the art and now seems more like damage control)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
And yeah I mean she has to play older because this 14-year-old is supposed to be the elected ruler of an entire planet The whole thing is nuts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
I always forget about the silly "elected 14 year old queen" buisness.
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