Hayden Christensen Explains How His Young Daughter Helped Him Get Ready For ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’

Hayden Christensen shared the adorable way his 7-year-old young lady, Briar Rose, helped him with making arrangements for his return as Anakin Skywalker a.k.a. Darth Vader in the Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi”.

“We have a couple lightsabers kicking around the house. She was my first lightsaber planning accessory when I got back to the ‘Obi-Wan’ show,” Christensen told Jimmy Fallon on Friday’s episode of “The This evening Show”.

The “Star Wars” performer saw that his young lady, whom he gives to ex Rachel Bilson, “knows Daddy’s Darth Vader,” however she’s “never viewed as Daddy to be Darth Vader,” adding that he’s “really holding up a smidgen until that happens.”

“I could show her the prequels soon… Yet, there’s sure scenes we could have to speedy forward through,” Christensen said.

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The 41-year-old Canadian performer had a relative experience planning to play the renowned “Star Wars” character the underlying time around, when he at first landed the require the position one year out of optional school, but with a whimsical lightsaber taking everything into account. Christensen portrayed Anakin Skywalker in two bits of the “Star Wars” prequel set of three 2002’s “Attack of the Clones” and 2005’s “Retaliation of the Sith”.

Yet again other than a brief voice appearance as Anakin in the 2019 side project “The Ascent of Skywalker”, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” signified Christensen’s most vital time wandering into the gig in more than 17 years.

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