He'll assemble it all and just add piece by piece, and take it back when
he thinks it is necessary,"
While Clones won't march into the aters until May 22, those wishing
to get a preview of the little known Canadianacting chops can check out Life
as a House, the family drama that opens in I limited release Friday.
It's an appropriate warm-up for his eventual transformation into Anakin's
less heroic identity, the evil Darth Vader Christensen is the surly Goth-chic
son who reconnects with his dying father (Kevin Kline), and his dark side
- he huffs aerosol sprays and gobbles pills, sports more piercings than a
pin cushion and dallies in prostitution - definitely gets a workout.
During his screen tests, he signed the required confidentiality agreements, vowing to stay mum about plot specifics, and a Jedi knight keeps his word. But this lad with the looks of a clean cut Greek statue who already has launched a thousand downloads did reveal a few juicy tidbits about the next chapter while at the festival. .. What does he think of the hotly debated title Attack of the Clones? There's been much Web opposition to Clones, labeled "dumb" and worse, but Christensen assures it is appropriate. There is an attack ("epic," he says), and there are clones (one is rumored to be Boba Fett, the cult figure that the actor says is his favorite Star Wars character). "There was the same sort of reaction when they announced The Phantom Menace.
They didn't know what it was about, and it didn't make sense. But I think it works with the new film." Does he interact with Jar Jar Binks, that digital dolt of a Gungan, and is the amphibious comic relief still annoying? "He's not my sidekick, but we relate sporadically throughout the film." The frog-faced creature who once more is spoken and acted out by Ahmed Best "has changed slightly." .. Any semi-nude shower scenes with Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala, like the one he shares with flirt-next- door Jena Malone in House? "No, no, This has a PC rating. But it's definitely romantic, and a large part of it is the love story,"
As for Portman, who is supposed to be 10 years older than Christensen but actually is a few months younger, "She's articulate, astute and very easy to playoff of, It's not hard to look at her with loving eyes." .. Is he a pro at light saber handling now? "They don't teach you the style of fighting, they teach you the choreography of the fight," says the former high school star athlete (hockey, tennis) who is rumored to engage in a two-fisted saber fight in Episode II. "So if you ask me to pick up a light saber and show you some tricks, I can do that, But put someone in front of me and say fight them, well, unless I've been told where to step and where to swing, I can't." Unless he is playing the video games, "When I was 13 or 14, I played them religiously, Too much,"
TORONTO - Not even a real war can halt Star Wars.
Hayden Christensen, the fair-haired 20-year-old who claimed the coveted role of Anakin Skywalker in the next two prequels of George Lucas' sci-fi saga, plans to fly to London Monday to shoot some additional scenes for Star wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
"George is just fine-tuning the story," assures Christensen, who previously did TV movies and series (Fox Family's higher Ground) before muscling out such name talents as Leonardo De Capprio and Ryan Phillippe for the plum asignment, "He kind of builds the movie like lego.
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