Hayden Christensen Is Glad theStar WarsPrequels Got Their Reappraisal

We live in a gilt old age of Star Wars prequel renaissance . The big stories right now all go back to the age of the prequel trilogy , its stars — some of them at least — are returning leave and correct . Arguably the most of import role in the galax right now , Ahsoka Tano , was born from Clone Wars’own diligent relitigationof the prequels ’ perceived downfalls . And few masses are as well-chosen about that as Hayden Christensen .

“ It ’s been a remarkable experience . And just a very heartwarming one . The journey that I ’ve been on with Star Wars over the last 20 asset old age … it ’s been a savage drive , and where we ’re at now is really meaningful to me , ” Christensenrecently told Empirein a wide - cast audience about his metre as — and return to — Anakin Skywalker , across Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith , and now inObi - Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka . “ I believe that those moving-picture show have held up well over time . It feels like vindication for the work that we did . Everyone that run on those moving picture thought that we were part of something peculiar . We all wanted to do our very best work , and we cared a lot about it . And so to see the response from the fans now , it ’s very cool . ”

Christensen drill the brunt of a lot of the complaints about the prequels ’ ecumenical acting performance at the fourth dimension — perhaps only up there with Jake Lloyd andAhmed Bestas specifically heighten targets of vitriolic abuse . But the cultural re - examination that has occurred over the last 25 year , as the youngster who grew up watch the films became adults , has seen Star Wars in turn more corking to re - research the legacy of the motion-picture show and return to their ideas with asimilarly more mature eye . For Christensen , that potential to prize what the prequels did for Star Wars was there since he very first watched .

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“ When Episode I came out , there was a great deal of exhilaration that they were making a unexampled Star Wars , and it was going to be the backstory of Darth Vader . But I had friends that were upset that the character was starting off as this vernal nipper . And I watched the film , and I lie with it . It was everything I desire and more . And I did n’t realise the gulf between the movie that I come across , and the negativity in some of the critique , ” Christensen continued . “ In a way that kind of criticism , I think , comes from a sure failure of their own suspension of unbelief . If you ’re gon na go sit in a theatre , and the opening curlicue starts with , ‘ A prospicient time ago , in a beetleweed far , far away ’ , that ’s set the stage that anything is potential . These mass do n’t call for to sound and behave the way that we might anticipate . And if you ’re choke to pose down and consider that you ’re getting something that is of our current zeitgeist , then you ’re typeset yourself up for something else . ”

Such is the cyclic nature of Star Wars . We ’re already see this approximation of outlook and realityfuriously being appliedto the fallout of the continuation trilogy — even nearly five geezerhood on from its end , that cycle will be an interesting one to get as we move even further on , and the current prequels Renascence declines from its greatest prominence . prison term will secern , just as it did for Hayden Christensen .

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