Ahmed Best’s dream-come-true soon turned into a nightmare.
Jar Jar Binks was supposed to be the role of a lifetime for actor Ahmed Best, plucked from a percussive dance troupe andBut Star Wars superfans hated him. Not just the flamboyant, oddball character, but Best too, apparently, for even agreeing to play the part.by an internet-fueled campaign of abuse — including death threats.in a new interview, he found himself on the Brooklyn Bridge, contemplating ending it all.you’ll feel exactly what I went through,” Best remembers thinking.
“I was an enormous Star Wars fan as a kid,” Best said in the podcast. “I didn’t know what was happening. I thought it was a prank.” When Best’s phone number was leaked and his answering machine was inundated with death threats, it became difficult for the actor to even leave his New York City apartment.
“It was terrible,” Best said of the period following the film’s release. “It was the lowest I’ve ever been in my life.”
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