Jake Lloyd's mother talks about scary fans

"We had strange letters," says Lisa Riley, mother of Jake Lloyd. "We had people following us around. We had all of that. There are a lot of paedophiles out there, you know. They got in touch. Crazy people, too. And then there were the religious fanatics, who thought Jake marked the second coming. I was like, 'No, trust me. He's not.'"

Guardian Unlimited

 

Of course, Jake wasn't the second coming, because Anakin was the first, conceived by the midis a long time ago.

 

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It's insane that there are people like that who think those things.

 

If Jake Lloyd's mom is American, she never said the word "paedophile." That is unlikely as the Queen Mum complaining about the "color" of her handbag.

 

Crazy stuff out there.

On another note I wrote a letter to Jake. I explained how much I enjoyed TPM and that he did a great job in the film.

-Seldon

 

i wounder what it is like getting stalked. Thats go to suck to. Crazy people you don't even know just following you around. Man i'd carry a bat or something.

dkt out

 

Yes... Crazy, Crazy People....

Jake isn't Divine...

IAN is.

 

On another note I wrote a letter to Jake. I explained how much I enjoyed TPM and that he did a great job in the film.

You...you...you sick MANIAC!!!

 

Who else is scared?

 

I'm sure they also received a lot of hate mail, echoing the vicious posts I've seen written about Jake on these boards.

 

Unless you're actually Jake Lloyd, you'll never really know.

 

Wow...that's just plain weird. I'd be making sure I have some REALLY high security systems.

 

I'm sure they also received a lot of hate mail, echoing the vicious posts I've seen written about Jake on these boards.

Well seeing as RA Salvatore received death threats for the Chewie business, that wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me either. Some people out there are just really twisted.

 

Scary fan? She should be glad she didn't run into
me five minutes after I saw Episode I for the first
time. I would have shown her a scary fan

Nah. Some people are just nuts. He seems like a
good kid. I just hope he doesn't go all "Different
strokes" when he turns twenty five.

 

I'm sure they also received a lot of hate mail, echoing the vicious posts I've seen written about Jake on these boards.

Well seeing as RA Salvatore received death threats for the Chewie business, that wouldn't surprise me at all.

And hence why fandom is a horrible, horrible thing.

 

I can't help but laugh when I hear that Jake's mum is called Lisa Riley, (UK people will know why ).

Owen

 

What Chewie business?

 

Chewbacca died in Vector Prime, written by R.A. Salvatore. Some fans got way too upset over that. People need to chill out.

 

Oh yeah.

It's EU. Make up your own story if you didn't like it.
Okay, back to topic.

 

Death threats to ANYONE are sick-not to mention illegal.

I don't think this is a pro/con EU thing. If people sent death threats to Jake Lloyd, they're sick. If people sent death threats to Salvatore, they're sick.

And yeah, the way people went after Lloyd was disgusting, Shelley. Even if he did a horrid job, (and that's neither here nor there), he was a freaking KID. Sheesh.

I mean, I hate Jennifer Love Hewitt and was horrified that she cast herself as Audrey Hepburn (and did a terrible job from what I gather), but I'm not going to send her nasty, threatening letters.