After years away from the saga, returning occassionally for Celebrations and a brief vocal turn in The Rise of Skywalker, Hayden Christensen couldn’t have anticipated not only the very warm public reaction to his return as Anakin Skywalker, but the scope of the work he’s been able to do. Filling in gaps he never even realised needed filling, we recently saw Anakin in his animated The Clone Wars guise in Ahsoka, something Christensen described as ‘a bucket-list item I didn’t even know I had‘.
“The scenes that I got to do as Anakin on Ahsoka was a bucket-list item I didn’t even know I had. When I was getting ready to do Obi-Wan Kenobi, I started my Clone Wars deep-dive, and I loved it. I remember thinking, ‘Man, it would be so cool to see some of that in live action.’ That was described to me by George Lucas when we were doing Episode III, the things that were going on in-between Episode II and III. So when Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau told me they wanted to explore some of that, I was so game. And I loved how it came out.”
For the full interview, check out the latest issue of Empire Magazine, landing with subscribers today and the general public tomorrow.
