Christensen allowed to interpret Skywalker role

Hayden Christensen is being allowed to interpret the role of Anakin Skywalker his way in Star Wars: Episode III which is now filming in Australia.

The Canadian actor, whose performance in Episode 11 – Attack of the Clones received a critical drubbing, tells Premiere magazine that this time filmmaker George Lucas “is taking a more proactive approach in terms of letting his actors feel as involved as they want to be”.

Christensen, 22, added: “This time he’s being much more liberal.”

The actor will next be seen in the film Shattered Glass portraying Stephen Glass, the real-life journalist who fell from grace when his editor at New Republic magazine discovered he had been making up stories.

“I never once thought about Anakin Skywalker while we were making this movie,” said Christensen.