Like Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith or not, it’s perhaps the boldest episode of the Skywalker Saga, a tragedy of epic proportions with some surprising swings, such as the slaughter of a bunch of kids at the hands of the protagonist, Anakin Skywalker. Now, actor Hayden Christensen has elaborated on how that went down behind the scenes.
As part of Empire’s super extensive retrospective of the Star Wars prequels released earlier this month, we got a handful of interviews with some of the biggest names involved in the making of those movies, and chief among them is Hayden Christensen. The whole thing is an amazing read for diehard fans of the prequels, but the bit about scaring the child actors who played the Jedi younglings is especially hilarious.
The interviewer was right to point out the (implied) slaughter of the younglings at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant is perhaps one of the strongest moments in the movie, the kind of stuff that probably wouldn’t fly with Disney even if we’ve gotten stuff like the entirety of the Andor series in recent years. According to Christensen, kids who meet him don’t seem to remember that scary moment: “There’s not any fear or intimidation. They’re just excited to meet Anakin.”
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