Mickey Rooney
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ceh35899 — 18 years ago(November 22, 2007 03:15 PM)
There's just one thing I want to know. If Mickey Rooney joined in on the protest against the first movie, why did he star in the final sequel?
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Erich-13 — 18 years ago(November 26, 2007 06:29 AM)
Considering how little the film has to do with the previous installments, it's possible that it had a different working titleperhaps it was originally titled simply "The Toy Maker," and the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" prefix was added later on for name recognition/marketability. If the SNDN title wasn't on the script he was given, he wouldn't have made the connection to his earlier protest.
Mind you, this is all just pure speculation on my part
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bluecastlesky — 17 years ago(November 16, 2008 12:01 AM)
He must of been out of his mind. I doubt that the pay was good. He was/is so washed up that I guess he was scraping by taking any crap roles he could get at his age. I find him demented and scary in this movie.
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wallacesawyer — 14 years ago(August 30, 2011 05:24 PM)
Maybe he swallowed his pride after seeing what a cult following the original had developed.
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banders46 — 12 years ago(October 01, 2013 12:34 PM)
I'm more interested in why anybody cared what he thought the first time around. It was a minor stroke of marketing genius to cast him in this sequel (whether it has anything to do with the controversy or not), given his objection to the first film.
It's too bad Rooney's career hasn't kept pace with longevity. The guy's been in movies longer than anyone, eighty years or so. -
ElectricWarlock — 10 years ago(December 07, 2015 07:47 AM)
Maybe he regretted his protesting as the years went by. He could've seen the error of his ways and realized he overreacted so appearing in this film was his way of saying "sorry" for it. Or perhaps, as others said, he just needed a way to pay the bills.