![]() I think that was probably working in my favour, at the time, because I wasn’t really taking it too seriously.” I was just excited to get to go and meet George Lucas. “Even outside of his work on Star Wars.” When he was a teenager his parents had bought him The Creative Impulse, a book about Lucas and his cultural influence. “I was a big admirer of George Lucas’s,” says Christensen. “My father especially.” But his work on the TV series Higher Ground, in which he played a teenager who had been molested by his stepmother, got him noticed, and he was summoned to Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch to audition for Star Wars. His parents “weren’t so keen on it at the time”, Christensen remembers. And I left high school prematurely to pursue my acting ambitions.” “I was maybe 16 or so and I thought: ‘Hey, I want to be an actor.’ And that was kind of it for me. His original plan was to go to university on a tennis scholarship, but that soon changed. While accompanying her to an agent meeting, the seven-year-old Christensen was spotted by a talent scout and started doing adverts, like his sister. It was his older sister, a child actor herself, who inadvertently got him into acting. He was the second youngest of four children and remembers his older brother having a great reverence for Star Wars – bedsheets and toys scattered around the house, all declared off limits to younger siblings. It was “a pretty normal childhood”, with his attention dominated by sport – mainly tennis and hockey, both at competitive levels. Photograph: Lucasfilm/AllstarĬhristensen, 41, was born in Vancouver, four years after the first Star Wars movie was released, and grew up in the suburbs of Toronto. These characters really do belong to everybody.”Ĭhristensen with Ewan McGregor in Attack of the Clones, 2002. “I think it just goes back to the sort of ownership that people feel towards these characters,” Christensen suggests today. They just don’t like the character,” Lucas said when Revenge of the Sith came out. Even though George Lucas had directed and co-written the movies, Christensen became the lightning rod for their resentment. And many of them couldn’t stomach seeing Darth Vader portrayed as a petulant, whiny brat. When he took on the roles of Anakin Skywalker and Skywalker’s later incarnation, Darth Vader, in the Star Wars prequels Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), fans of the franchise had had a quarter of a century in which to form their ideas about the characters. And, of course, she’s aware of my involvement in them.”Ĭhristensen’s hesitancy is perhaps to be expected. “I know! I know! I feel like I’m probably dragging my feet a little bit at this point, because all of her friends have seen the movies. “I have a seven-year old-daughter I have not shown her Star Wars,” the actor says, as though he has just admitted a shameful secret. Lastly, have fun! Hart of Dixie is a show about a close knit town of fun, wacky characters, so a forum dedicated to it should be no different.H ayden Christensen has a confession to make. But we're not allowed to treat one another badly. People are allowed to like things you don't. ![]() ![]() This is what civil, adult discussions are for.īe respectful. If it crosses your mind it may make someone uncomfortable or could get a viewer in trouble at their job, please mark it 'Possible NSFW'.ĭo not use the downvote button for differing opinions. Mark everything NSFW (not safe for work) as such. If you're unable to or just can't remember how to do a spoiler, then do something like (WARNING SPOILER!) or (SPOILER WARNING:) even (POSSIBLE SPOILERS) to draw attention to the fact you may in fact be spoilering something. Here's a really nice writeup on how to do spoilers. This means anything you think could be taken as spoiler, mark it. r/HartofDixie rules and etiquette reminders: Wikipedia: Main Entry, List of Episodes. ![]() Well this is the place for you! Jump right in, start chatting. Got an interesting fact, a picture that needs sharing or just want to talk about the show? This is your place to rant, rave, gossip, theorize about or just squee over the ongoings of your favorite BlueBellians. Welcome to /r/HartofDixie! The BlueBell of the Internet.
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