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* [[Awesome, Dear Boy]]: Most actors just jumped at the opportunity of being in a ''Star Wars'' movie.

* [[Cast the Expert]]: Darth Maul was played by Ray Park, who was a martial arts expert and stunt man, not an actor, although he has had a number of acting roles since then. This is one of the reasons that he had virtually no lines, and what lines he had were dubbed by Peter Serafinowicz.

* [[Deleted Scene]]: This movie, like the others, has its fair share of deleted scenes. One of the more notable ones is where Qui-Gon and Anakin start to depart from Tatooine. One of Maul's sith droids attempts to tail them, only for Qui-Gon to suddenly slice it down, and then explaining they need to hurry back to the ship. This scene explained why immediately in the next scene, they were running back to the ship when the previous scene had them walking calmly from the market.

** Another notable deleted scene, taking place after the podrace, involves Anakin ''beating the crap out of one of the other kids'' because he accused Anakin of cheating. Would have foreshadowed Anakin's prone to anger.

*** Jar Jar Binks [[Isamu Tanonaka|was]] [[GeGeGe no Kitaro|Medama Ojaji]] and [[Persona 3|Igor]], and later [[The Other Darrin|replaced]] [[Yuji Mitsuya|by]] [[Combattler V|Hyoma Aoi]] in the animated series after Isamu Tanonaka's death between the movies and the TV series.

*** Mace Windu [[Tessho Genda|is]] [[Sengoku Basara|Takeda Shingen]] and [[Naruto|The Nine-tailed Fox]].

** More like Hey It's That Guy's Kid, but Andy Secombre, Watto's voice actor, is the son of Harry Secombe, who played Mr. Bumble in the 1968 film of [[Oliver]]

* [[Old Shame]]: Jake Lloyd isn't fond of his role as Anakin Skywalker, in no small part due to it [[Never Live It Down|being the reason he was bullied throughout middle school and high school.]] He even burned all of his ''[[Star Wars]]'' memorabilia and never watched a single ''[[Star Wars]]'' film again, stating it was too creepy to watch them again.

**Also for Terrence Stamp, who reportedly disliked working on the film.

* [[Preview Piggybacking]]: ''[[Meet Joe Black]]'' and ''[[The Siege (film)|The Siege]]'' both had the teaser trailer for this film. A number of fans bought tickets just to see the preview, ''and then walked out''.

* [[Sequel Gap]]: 16 years between this and ''Jedi's'' release.

* [[Star-Making Role]]: Both [[Ewan McGregor]] and [[Natalie Portman]] were well respected actors but were in either small roles or independent films. This movie made them big names. Ray Park also fits in, as his presence in the final battle was one of the most memorable parts of the movie.

** On the other hand, it was a [[Star-Derailing Role]] for Jake Lloyd. He was never a star, but he had a respectable career as a child actor before this film. He did one movie after it and then quit acting. He said in a recent interview though that he's pursuing a career in film ''editing'', so he isn't totally gone from the movie-making scene. One can only hope he has/had access to [[Wil Wheaton]] as a mentor.

 

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