Eliana Dockterman (edockterman): It's time to forgive Hayden Christensen for the 'Star Wars' prequels
Darth Vader in Lucasfilm'sBoth McGregor and Christensen appear to be acutely aware of the deleterious effect the prequels had on Christensen’s career. Much of the press tour forhas centered on the reclamation of the prequels and Anakin in particular. “I found it quite hard,”of the reaction to the prequels. “For it to come out and get knocked so hard was personally quite difficult to deal with.
He went on to say the tides are turning. “Now I meet the people who we made those films for, who were the kids of the time,” he said. “And ourfilms. In the way that Carrie Fisher and Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford’s films were ours, we’re theirs. And that’s beautiful that they were important to the kids who we made them for. It’s just so nice to finally get that wave of positivity about them.
Hoping to capture that younger demographic, the trailers coyly tease a rematch between Anakin and Obi-Wan. LucasFilm could have put anyone inside that Vader suit. But they’re bringing back Christensen because Obi-Wan Kenobi is wracked with guilt for letting his trainee Anakin turn to the dark side, and the show will reportedly find Obi-Wan a broken man looking out for little Luke Skywalker on Tatooine.
how he felt about the fans finally embracing him, Christensen replied, “I guess the moral of the story is patience.”
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