We reside in a golden age of Star Wars prequel renaissance. The largest 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 an important character within the galaxy proper now, Ahsoka Tano, was born from Clone Wars’ own diligent relitigation of the prequels’ perceived downfalls. And few individuals are as glad 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 over the past 20 plus years… it’s been a wild experience, and the place we’re at now could be 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 motion pictures have held up effectively over time. It appears like vindication for the work that we did. Everybody that labored on these motion pictures thought that we have been a part of one thing particular. All of us needed to do our best possible work, and we cared rather a lot about it. And so to see the response from the followers now, it’s very cool.”
Christensen bore the brunt of a number of the complaints in regards to the prequels’ common 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 over the past 25 years, as the youngsters who grew up watching the movies turned 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 a number of 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 associates that have been upset that the character was beginning off as this younger child. And I watched the movie, and I liked it. It was all the pieces I needed and extra. And I didn’t perceive the disconnect between the film that I noticed, and the negativity in among the evaluations,” Christensen continued. “In a approach 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, far-off’, that’s setting the stage that something is feasible. These individuals don’t must sound and behave the best way that we’d anticipate. And if you happen to’re going to take a seat down and assume that you simply’re getting one thing that’s of our present zeitgeist, you then’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 almost 5 years on from its finish, that cycle will probably be an attention-grabbing one to expertise as we transfer even additional on, and the present prequels renaissance declines from its biggest prominence. Time will inform, simply because it did for Hayden Christensen.
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