{"id":6693,"date":"2022-05-16T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/hayden-christensens-first-star-wars-interview-flashback\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:41:42","slug":"hayden-christensens-first-star-wars-interview-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=6693","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Christensen\u2019s FIRST Star Wars Interview (Flashback)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/px1dAmFXHiE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Hayden Christensen spoke with ET in 2000 just days after being cast as Anakin Skywalker in \u2018Star Wars: Episode II &#8211; Attack of the Clones.&#8217; In this rare interview, the young actor reacted to George Lucas tapping him to play teenage Darth Vader in the filmmaker\u2019s galactic saga, and revealed the funny way his mom learned he nabbed the iconic role. Upon the movie\u2019s release in 2002, Hayden shared behind-the-scenes stories with ET about his lightsaber training and acting with Natalie Portman. Lightspeed to 2022, he\u2019s reuniting on screen with Ewan McGregor in \u2018Obi-Wan Kenobi,\u2019 premiering May 27 on Disney+. Plus, Hayden is donning the helmet yet again for Rosario Dawson&#8217;s TV series, \u2018Ahsoka,\u2019 which just kicked off production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Christensen spoke with ET in 2000 just days after being cast as Anakin Skywalker in \u2018Star Wars: Episode II &#8211; Attack of the Clones.&#8217; In this rare interview, the young actor reacted to George Lucas tapping him to play&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4987],"tags":[72,5376,5379,5378,5380,5377,9186,11407,9187,11410,11409,71,11408,38,11412,11411,9192,9188,9185,68],"class_list":["post-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-entertainment-news","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment-tonight","tag-et","tag-et-online","tag-et-tonight","tag-etonline","tag-ewan-mcgregor","tag-flashback","tag-hayden-christensen","tag-hayden-christensen-first-intview","tag-hayden-christensen-star-wars-interview","tag-hollywood","tag-natalie-portman","tag-news","tag-obi-wan-hayden","tag-obi-wan-hayden-christensen","tag-obi-wan-show","tag-obi-wan-kenobi","tag-star-wars","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}