We reside in a golden age of Star Wars prequel renaissance. The most important tales proper now all return to the age of the prequel trilogy, its stars—some of them at least— are returning left and proper. Arguably crucial character within the galaxy proper now, Ahsoka Tano, was born from Clone Wars’ own diligent relitigation of the prequels’ perceived downfalls. And few persons are as pleased about that as Hayden Christensen.
“It’s been a outstanding expertise. And only a very heartwarming one. The journey that I’ve been on with Star Wars during the last 20 plus years… it’s been a wild experience, and the place we’re at now’s actually significant to me,” Christensen recently told Empire in a wide-ranging interview about his time as—and return to—Anakin Skywalker, throughout Assault of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, and now in Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka. “I believe that these films have held up effectively over time. It looks like vindication for the work that we did. Everybody that labored on these films thought that we have been a part of one thing particular. All of us wished to do our absolute best work, and we cared quite a bit about it. And so to see the response from the followers now, it’s very cool.”
Christensen bore the brunt of numerous the complaints concerning the prequels’ basic appearing performances on the time—maybe solely up there with Jake Lloyd and Ahmed Best as particularly heightened targets of vitriolic abuse. However the cultural re-examination that has occurred during the last 25 years, as the kids who grew up watching the movies grew to become adults, has seen Star Wars in flip extra eager to re-explore the legacy of the movies and return to their concepts with a similarly more matured eye. For Christensen, that potential to understand what the prequels did for Star Wars was there since he very first watched.
“When Episode I got here out, there was numerous pleasure that they have been making a brand new Star Wars, and it was going to be the backstory of Darth Vader. However I had pals that have been upset that the character was beginning off as this younger child. And I watched the movie, and I beloved it. It was the whole lot I wished and extra. And I didn’t perceive the disconnect between the film that I noticed, and the negativity in a number of the evaluations,” Christensen continued. “In a method that kind of criticism, I believe, comes from a sure failure of their very own suspension of disbelief. For those who’re gonna go sit in a theatre, and the opening scroll begins with, ‘A very long time in the past, in a galaxy far, distant’, that’s setting the stage that something is feasible. These individuals don’t have to sound and behave the best way that we would count on. And if you happen to’re going to sit down down and assume that you just’re getting one thing that’s of our present zeitgeist, then you definately’re setting your self up for one thing else.”
Such is the cyclical nature of Star Wars. We’re already seeing this concept of expectation and actuality furiously being applied to the fallout of the sequel trilogy—even practically 5 years on from its finish, that cycle will likely be an fascinating one to expertise as we transfer even additional on, and the present prequels renaissance declines from its best prominence. Time will inform, simply because it did for Hayden Christensen.
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