Even Hayden Christensen Hated Anakin Skywalker
It's no secret that most people didn't like the Star Wars prequels. "Over-produced, under-acted garbage written by a talentless egomaniac with an unhealthy fixation on what cool things were like before they were cool" is what the tiny Roger Ebert, perched atop the balcony of my pituitary gland, has to say about them.
Slightly more of a surprise? Even the actors hated them. Or at least Hayden Christensen did, judging by this quote he gave to E!
How those movies are made is very specific, as far as what our jobs are... George isn't looking for us to come in and have script meetings with him and talk about characters.It wasn't necessarily anything you could feel good about creatively, as far as "This is why I became an actor." It's not why you become an actor, to do stuff like [Star Wars].
This guy is very politely and politically saying that George Lucas' idea of direction is to shove you in front of a green screen and tell you to recite your lines as if your lips were injected with Novacaine and your brain was injected with Thorazine. Which is, not so surprisingly, exactly the performance Christiansen turned in for Episode II and III.
Hayden Christensen, Safely Out of Reach from George Lucas, Opens Up [E! Online]
I finally bothered registering just to point out a mistake.
I know, it's pedantic. And you do a lot of these posts every day -- a couple of boo-boos are inevitable.
But ever since you failed to spell Roy Scheider's name correctly while linking to his obituary, it's bothered me. Then came your misapplication of the term 'live action' when referring to George Romero's new theatrical production (As if his usual medium was animation, or something). And now...
Well, let's just say you managed to spell Hayden Christensen's name right once in this article. Hint: It's not in the title.
Look, I like your work, and that's why I read this blog. Can you please just double-check your posts before you hit send?
Xander, thanks for pointing this out. It's fixed