Anakin might have been the heir to the Empire, but Hayden Christensen was on stage at Fan Expo New Orleans to discuss the hair of the Empire as he revealed that the luscious locks he wore on Revenge of the Sith, and later Ahsoka weren’t actually his. Sit down, take a breath and then listen to Hayden explain hair, lifting stuff from set and more.
Christensen admitted, “I kept one of the wigs from Episode III.” After a smattering of laughs and applause, Christensen joked, “Full disclosure: that’s not my real hair.”
“I have a couple of the little Padmé braids from Episode II,” Christensen continued, referring to the character played by Natalie Portman, with whom his character shares a tragic love story and two children. The 44-year-old actor teased “a couple of other little knickknacks” he took home, but joked, “I probably shouldn’t talk about [that].”
But talk about it he did, adding that he has “a couple of lightsabers” that “maybe I wasn’t supposed to take home with me.” Christensen recalled how, while filming in Australia, “I was trying to figure out how to get this one lightsaber back. So I packaged it up, and I shipped it as a didgeridoo. I told them I bought a didgeridoo, [because] I wanted them to send it back to Canada for me.”
