15 Worst Performances In Star Wars Movies
6. Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
When it came to casting the young Anakin Skywalker, George Lucas needed to choose the best young actor he could find. Did he succeed in this task? Definitely not.
There are many dreadful child actor performances out there, but Jake Lloyd's performance as young Anakin is definitely one of the most infamous. With his grating, cringe-worthy and entirely unconvincing performance, Lloyd just didn't have it as Anakin. Every time he shouted "Yippee!" was toe-curling and his conversations with Padme, whom he evidently fancies, are pretty creepy.
Giving good performances when a child is hard and Jake Lloyd might've turned into a perfectly capable actor had he not retired after the release of The Phantom Menace; sadly, doing the film had a bad effect on his life and he left the profession.