Jake Lloyd, young Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s The Phantom Menace, left Hollywood and, in June, was arrested after leading police on a wild car chase in Charleston, South Carolina. Carrie Fisher has enjoyed a solid career as an actor and writer but she was never A-List, and original hero Mark Hamill struggled after 1983’s Return of the Jedi. Harrison Ford arguably is the only franchise standout who catapulted to megastardom.
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In fact, the Star Wars series has a decidedly mixed track record of creating movie stars. While booking the highly coveted roles got both Ridley and Boyega top-tier representation, joining a massive franchise doesn’t necessarily guarantee a massive Hollywood career. The newcomers were joined by Adam Driver, 32, and Oscar Isaac, 36, who, while known for the HBO series Girls and such indie films as Inside Llewyn Davis, respectively, still were not exactly household names. That was the reaction of Hollywood executives and movie fans on April 29, 2014, when The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Daisy Ridley, a British actress with just a handful of London television credits to her name, would play a lead role in the movie that became Star Wars: The Force Awakens.īoth Ridley, now 23, and John Boyega, also 23, and best known for starring in 2011’s Attack the Block, were unknowns when they nabbed the gig of a lifetime.
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