Award-winning actor James Earl Jones sadly passed away on Monday aged 93. Ed Balls has hailed how he managed his stammer in an emotional tribute to the Star Wars star.
Ed Balls has hailed legendary voice actor James Earl Jones and how he managed his stammer in an emotional tribute to the Star Wars star after his death aged 93.
He often credited his English teacher - and poet - Donald Crouch who truly helped him through and had him stand in front of the class and read out his poetry. 'There was another pupil who sat behind me who was also a stutterer and the teacher, who was young, would shake him, and I'd say, 'L-l-lll-l-let me teach him' and I took over his studies, or when he had to talk. I understood him. I understood that shaking him was not going to help. She was relieved,' Jones added.
Read More James Earl Jones remembered by Star Wars actor Mark Hamillt 'I had started writing poetry in high school and he said of one of them, 'Jim, this is a good poem. In fact, it is so good I don't think you wrote it. I think you plagiarised it. If you want to prove you wrote it, you must stand in front of the class and recite it by memory'.
Following the announcement of the icon's passing, Mark took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share an article about the news and to write the short tribute - referring their on-screen father and son relationship In an attempt to overcome his stammer, Ed said he memorised 15 speeches a week and when he appears to have forgotten his lines, it is just that his voice has frozen.
In 2016, Ed spoke frankly for the first time about his 'decade-long struggle' with a stammer and how then-Prime Minister David Cameron's taunts led him to go public with his affliction 'I spent two or three years trying to find out what it was and trying to work out how to handle the fact that sometimes my speeches dried up in TV interviews and in the House of Commons.'
In his book, Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics, he recalls how Cameron would lead the jeering from the Commons front bench – and nicknamed him 'Blinky Balls'. 'As the Tories got a chance to see me up close across the dispatch box, a new phenomenon started: If I hesitated when answering a question, they'd shout 'Errrr', which made me hesitate more, and the laughter and mocking Errrr's would grow louder.'
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