See Danny from "The Shining" now at 49
Danny Lloyd retired to act shortly after the film, but recently made a special return to the screen.
The brilliant is one ofmost scary films (and novels) of all time, and that helped to doDanny Lloyd, who played Danny Torrance in the film, a star child and a horror icon. Lloyd is from Midwest and was not really a child actor at the time - he found his way to the role after his father saw a casting for young children atact in a next movie, byThe Guardian. DirectorStanley Kubrick hired to play the son ofJack NicholsonandShelley Duvall'scharacters because he was impressed by Lloyd's ability to concentrate and concentrate, which would be useful in theStephen King The most intense scenes of adaptation. Read the rest to know why Lloyd did not continue to act in adulthood and how he honors his role in the classic horror film today.
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He did not know that he was acting in a horror film.
Lloyd, who was eight years old when the film was released, recalled an interview of 2017 withThe Guardian That he thoughtThe brilliant was a drama of a family that lived in a hotel. It was not until years later that he watched the uncoupled version of the film that he realized that the twin girls with whom he played on the set played ghosts and that the character of Nicholson, Jack Torrance, was trying to kill his.
During the shooting, the child's actor was protected by Kubrick and the rest of the distribution and the crew so that he is not marked for life. For example, they used models instead of Lloyd in some of the most violent scenes, and there have been a lot of games played between the catches. Overall, he has good memories to make the film.
"I specifically remember that I was banished from the whole throughout the timeCrothers Scatman was in ax, "said LloydThe Guardian, referring to the scene of the brutal death of Dick Halloran.
He only played another role as a child.
Two years laterThe brilliant, Lloyd appeared as "Young Liddy" inWill: the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, and that would prove to be his last credit as a child actor, although he continued to audition for a while. He saidThe Guardian However, what deals with rejection to such a young age is not what made him leave the business. "No, I wouldn't say it was overwhelming," said Lloyd. “I have always appreciated. It was exciting. But as I was getting a little old, it became boring. Then I had to tell my parents that I was ready to stop. What they were good. They were never stage parents. They made sure that I had normal education. ""
He is a biology teacher and a father.
Lloyd is now the father of four children and teaches biology at the Elizabethtown Community College in Kentucky. He saidNews News In 2013, "I runA fairly normal life now. People don't recognize me when I went out in public. "In 2019, he saidThe Hollywood Reporter that he prefers that his students do not know hisOld life as a child actor. "I try to keep it down," said Lloyd. "You get students of all ages. The youngest are not aware and that's how it is. But from time to time, a student will say something."AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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He had a cameo in a series ofThe brilliant.
In 2019,Ewan McGregor played as an adult Danny Torrance in the followingDoctor Sleep, adapted from King'sBrightContinuation of the same name. The film revolves around Danny trying to protect a young girl who also shine from the real knot, a cult that feeds on it. Editor and directorMike Flanagan found Lloyd on Twitter and asked him if he hadmake a cameo in the film, as indicated by viaVariety. Lloyd was the game, andYou can spot it In the scene where the real knot goes to Iowa to kidnap a young shiner called Bradley Trevor (Jacob Tremblay). Lloyd plays a spectator (photo above right), who looks at the Bradley little league baseball match from the stands and tells another parent that he almost seems that the boy can "read the mind of the launcher ".
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He does not believe any of the conspiracy theories.
There are so many conspiracy theories onThe brilliantThere - especially that Kubrick used visual clues in costumes to help the American government simulate the landing of the 1969 moon - that there is a documentary feature film about them, 2012Salle 237. Lloyd was perhaps just a child when he made the film, but he will say to anyone asking that it is all that the actors and the team were doing - making a film.
"Honestly, no. I don't think there is a basis for all this," he saidThe Guardian Asked about the different theories of fans. "I think these are people who are Kubrick fans and try to explain some of the things that are almost inexplicable." Why did he do this? Why did he do that? "But no, I do not buy any of the plots." Instead, he remembers the late Kubrick as an ordinary guy who called him to congratulate him for his secondary school diploma and continued to send cards Christmas for years after the end of the film.
