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TIL former actor Jake Lloyd, the man who played young Anakin in The Phantom Menace, was bullied so much for his role he quit acting and destroyed his Star Wars merch. Later he would be arrested for reckless driving without a license and has been transferred to a psych facility for schizophrenia.

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