@bruxae said:
It's funny how he tends to blame things (partly) on being cast in Star Wars, it opened up a ton of possibilities for him that a normal teenager could only dream about, he was celebrated and had fans that loved him but he chose to act like a brat and be on the defensive around them. While I can definitely understand how some aspects were hard for him, and there's almost certainly more to things in his personal life, I can't feel sorry for him. Hanging on to the bad even when he didn't need too and had good things thrown at his face was a choice he made, and whatever he gets is what he deserves.
I'm somewhere in the middle over this personally.
I agree that he focused on the negative and that is his fault, and that he needed to move on, but I don't think that any 10 year old should be put under the kind of pressure he was put under, he took a lot of blame, criticism, and general vitriol from adults.
Child actor's rarely tend to grow up into well-adjusted people to begin with, and on top of that Lloyd was in one of the biggest movies of all time and his character and performance was hated (he was nominated for multiple "worst actor" awards).
In interviews he does come across as very defensive towards both fans and haters, but I would still tend to believe him when he says he was made fun of consistently throughout most of his childhood by both other children, and strangers. He was a kid and could well have also become paranoid about people talking about him, which would add to the problems.
----------------------------------------
Of course if he actually is Schizophrenic then this is neither here nor there and he simply needs help for his debilitating mental health issues, which are not his fault, are largely outside of his control, and may well have screwed his life up regardless.
Log in to comment