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LEPRECHAUN
October 24, 2015  | By David Bianculli

AMC, 7:00 p.m. ET

 
After appearing in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, diminutive actor Warwick Davis went on to co-star in Labyrinth, portray the title role in Willow, and then, beginning with this light-hearted yet sometimes mean-spirited 1993 horror film, star in a series of Leprechaun movies, again playing the leading role. And he’s since appeared in several more recent Star Wars and Harry Potter films, and starred as an exaggerated version of himself, alongside series creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, in HBO’s Life’s Too Short. All of which proves the adage, once and for all, that there are no small parts – only small actors. And speaking of actors, check out the female lead in this original Leprechaun movie: It’s Jennifer Aniston, one year before she would take a co-starring role on a little NBC sitcom called Friends. Which proves there are no little sitcoms…
 
 
 
 
 
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