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     They certainly picked the right actor to play a very young Darth Vader
                                        
Sorry for that “Phantom Menace [1] clip in the previous post [2], but I did
find something interesting when I was searching for it:

> In today’s flashback to the ’90s news, former child star Jake Lloyd, the
> Turbo-Man fanatic from the Arnold Schwarzenegger Christmas movie Jingle All
> The Way and the infamous first Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace, was
> arrested on charges including resisting arrest and failing to stop for a
> police officer in South Carolina this weekend. Police saw Lloyd speeding,
> and began to follow him, but rather than slow down, Lloyd sped up and
> according to TMZ [3] eventually reached 117 miles per hour as he led police
> on a chase that ended with Lloyd crashing into a tree.
> 

“The Real Life Fall of Anakin Skywalker: Jake Lloyd’s Journey From ‘Star
Wars’ to the Slammer - The Daily Beast [4]”

It's the picture that sells this—that yes, I can see that kid becoming Darth
Vader [5].

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/08/20.1
[3] http://www.tmz.com/2015/06/22/star-wars-anakin-
[4] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/23/the-real-life-fall-of-
[5] http://www.starwars.com/databank/darth-vader

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