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| What a Shining example to child stars of today | What a Shining example to child stars of today |
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| One reason to love Halloween is that one of my favourite films, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, will be shown across the country (accompanied by Matt Wells’s Work & Play: A Short Film About The Shining). | One reason to love Halloween is that one of my favourite films, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, will be shown across the country (accompanied by Matt Wells’s Work & Play: A Short Film About The Shining). |
| Danny Lloyd, who played Danny Torrance, the boy zooming around the Overlook hotel on the tricycle, has also given an interview. Now 45 and a biology professor in Kentucky, Lloyd, a regular kid when cast, says that he has many great memories and one sad one – a broken promise that he’d be given the tricycle at the end of filming (“Redrum!” indeed). | Danny Lloyd, who played Danny Torrance, the boy zooming around the Overlook hotel on the tricycle, has also given an interview. Now 45 and a biology professor in Kentucky, Lloyd, a regular kid when cast, says that he has many great memories and one sad one – a broken promise that he’d be given the tricycle at the end of filming (“Redrum!” indeed). |
| Lloyd also said that, although he got no further with acting, he always felt that he’d “won the lottery” with The Shining and didn’t envy child stars of today. | Lloyd also said that, although he got no further with acting, he always felt that he’d “won the lottery” with The Shining and didn’t envy child stars of today. |
| What a great attitude and also what a contrast. In 1980, Lloyd was pining for a tricycle; these days, a breakthrough child star would be eyeing up a Netflix series at least. And good luck to them, but I’m with Lloyd. He wasn’t in any old film, he was in the film – a masterpiece that is still remembered nearly 40 years later; as of course is he. | What a great attitude and also what a contrast. In 1980, Lloyd was pining for a tricycle; these days, a breakthrough child star would be eyeing up a Netflix series at least. And good luck to them, but I’m with Lloyd. He wasn’t in any old film, he was in the film – a masterpiece that is still remembered nearly 40 years later; as of course is he. |