David Bowie was 39 and Jennifer Connelly was 15 when the movie was made. This story is given a fairytale context, but it seems questionable from a 21st-century perspective.
How old was Jennifer Connelly during The Labyrinth?
Fourteen-year-old actress Jennifer Connelly "won Jim [Henson] over", and he cast her within a week. Henson states that Connelly was chosen, as she "could act that kind of dawn-twilight time between childhood and womanhood".
Like Bowie's codpiece, it stares you in the face all the way through the film. Jareth's a 300-year-old Goblin King (played by a 38-year-old pop star) who wants to live within 15-year-old Sarah.
Jareth then goes to the human world to entice Sarah, with whom he is still in love, into creating a new world with him using the power of her dreams. However, Sarah realises her dreams and finds a way to preserve the world of the Labyrinth by writing stories.
He is more predatory in the novelization, and attempts to kiss Sarah as they dance during the dream-ballroom before she pulls away from him. Jareth does not sing in the novelization, and all the musical scenes that feature him in the film are replaced by dialogue scenes.
Jennifer Connelly Met Princess Diana At The "Labyrinth" Royal Premiere At Age 16
Why was the Goblin King obsessed with Sarah?
Jareth's number one priority is to be a king, a goblin king. He wants Sarah under his thumb because it would look bad for him if she got away with the things she did while under his rule. If you really think about it, it sounds like he wants to keep her as a favorite pet.
What is Jareth trying to say in Labyrinth with his offer to Sarah: “Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave”? Jareth is a representation of everything Sarah wants to hold onto, and what holds onto her. She fears growing up, loves her make-believe.
For example, the movie is about an older man trying to coerce, manipulate and poison a teenage girl into becoming first his slave and then his bride. David Bowie was 39 and Jennifer Connelly was 15 when the movie was made.
In real life, we chalk it up to the wooden acting, but in the movie Sarah displays some signs of a disorder, possibly related to Asperger's or Autism. Her little-changing expressions.
What Bowie actually suffered from is called anisocoria: namely that one pupil was bigger than the other. It means that the iris - the coloured bit - can't react to light in the same way as its fellow, so the area appears to be darker. This means it looks like one eye is a different colour to the other.
Bowie died of liver cancer in 2016 at the age of 69. He and Iman, a model, had been married 23 years at the time of his death, and shared one child, Lexi. The music legend is also dad of son Duncan Jones, 52, from his marriage to Angie Bowie. In 2003, Bowie opened up about how Lexi impacted his music.
Summary. Brian Henson confirms Labyrinth 2 is still in development, but progress has been minimal. The sequel has had various directors and script updates over the past decade. Uncertainty surrounds the plot of Labyrinth 2, especially the recasting of David Bowie's Jareth.
The park seen at the start of the film is West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire, England. The scenes of Sarah running back home were filmed in various towns in New York, namely North Nyack, Piermont and Haverstraw.
They married in 1980. Froud was born during preproduction of his parents' second film with Henson, Labyrinth (released in 1986), and at the age of one he was featured in the film as the baby who is wished away to the Goblin King by his older sister Sarah.
In the 1986 film Labyrinth, the crystal ball manipulations seen to be performed by David Bowie's character were actually done by Moschen, who stood behind Bowie during filming. Since Moschen could not see the objects he was juggling, it took many takes to film the scenes with the crystal balls.
Toby - his name in real life too - ended up following in the footsteps of his father Brian Froud, who was the conceptual designer and costume designer for Labyrinth. Toby is now in his late 30s, and works as a puppeteer and creator of goblins, trolls and other creatures himself.
Also, likely Jareth knows she is the reason why he is deprived of a social life in his little kingdom, but he loves her anyway, because she wants him to.
The film's director Jim Henson viewed the entire film as a representation of Sarah's inner journey that culminates in her taking responsibility for her own life.
[Labyrinth] Jareth is a heartbroken goblin king/single dad who lost his former wife (Sarah) to amnesia. In Sarah's former life-she was a goblin queen who got fed up with king Jareth's controlling ways so she decides to 'run away' from the goblin kingdom, taking their young baby boy Toby.
Jareth did as Sarah bid him, and ultimately allowed her to return to her own world so she could 'follow her own path'. Reunited with the ablation, Sarah had her dreams restored to her. Sarah was last seen writing a fairy-tale esque novel patterned on The Labyrinth (Return to Labyrinth.)
16-year-old Sarah Williams rehearses a play called "The Labyrinth" in the park with her dog Merlin but becomes distracted by a line she is unable to remember. Realizing she is late to babysit her baby half-brother Toby, she rushes home and is confronted by her stepmother before she and Sarah's father go out.
It transports Labyrinth fans to 18th century Venice when Jareth the Goblin King was just a babe in the arms of his mother Maria – a taverna maid who married a duplicitous English nobleman named Albert Tyton who abandoned his wife and child in fear of what his father would think of him marrying beneath his social class.
