Hayden Christensen Discussed “Clone Wars-Era” Anakin Skywalker 20 Years Before ‘Ahsoka’
Ahoska stars Rosario Dawson and Hayden Christensen reunited in Los Angeles for an Emmys for Your Consideration conversation surrounding the Star Wars series’ fifth episode, “Shadow Warrior.”
The memorable installment in Ahsoka saw Anakin Skywalker and his former Padawan Ashoka Tano reunited in the World Between Worlds. There, the complicated relationship between the two was explored through flashbacks, lightsaber duels, and a conversation about the Dark and Light side of the Force.
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During the conversation, Christensen revealed that when Dave Filoni first called him about returning as Anakin in Ahsoka, he asked him if he knew about the World Between the Worlds.
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“I said, ‘Yeah, I do.’ I was just instantly really excited because it just creatively opened us up a lot in terms of what we could do with the character,” he explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “Anakin, he goes through a lot in his life and in the prequels he’s a very emotional character, but in this, this is a post-life version of the character, so he’s aware of all of those things but he’s not emotionally beholden to those things either, so we could present just a slightly different slant on the character.”
George Lucas Had Explained Anakin’s Clone Wars Exploits Two Decades Ago
For Christensen, the experience was especially meaningful as he finally got to play a Clone Wars-era version of Anakin. It was a side of his character that he never got to play, but one that he had still discussed with George Lucas 20 years ago.
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During the For Your Consideration event, Christensen said he remembered “George [Lucas] telling me about the Clone Wars when we were getting ready to do Revenge of the Sith and just filling me in on all the backstory — how Anakin fought in the Clone Wars and he was this great warrior and a decorated general. I remember thinking, ‘Wow, that sounds really cool, would be nice to see some of that,’” he then added that following the animated Clone Wars series, “to get our feet wet with that in live action was just a real privilege.”
Will We See Anakin Again?
While “Shadow Warrior” eventually ended with Tano finally coming to grips with Anakin’s fall and reemerging stronger than ever, the finale of Ahsoka showed that Skywalker was still watching over his former Padawan. Perhaps then, we will see Dawson and Christensen working together again when Ahsoka Season 2 arrives on Disney+.
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