Nic Cage Has Definite Feelings About Hayden Christensen’s Star Wars Peformance
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No matter what, for good or ill, Hayden Christensen will likely never be able to escape the shadow of his time spent in the Star Wars universe. To be fair, the same can be said of others, especially Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher—whatever else they’ve done in their careers, whatever their successes or failures, we’ll always think of them as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. (Harrison Ford, for his part, managed to move beyond his Han Solo character.) For all of the things people criticize about the prequels (even if you’re a fan, you have to admit, they’re widely panned films), one of the elements most often pointed out and derided is Christensen’s performance as Anakin Skywalker, who, of course, becomes Darth Vader (sorry if I spoiled that for anyone). Still, he’s not without his supporters, including one very famous champion, a little dude we like to call Nicolas Cage.
The two actors worked together on the upcoming fantasy adventure Outcast, and while doing press for that film, Cage took a few moments to praise his costar to IGN, specifically his turn in both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. He says, “I watched George’s movies, and the work Hayden did with George, and I was very impressed with Hayden’s sort of edgy, dangerous, dark and still soulful performance. I thought it was superb. And so I really connected with him.” He also calls Christensen a “lovely man,” and hopes they can continue to be friends.
Check out the whole video below, it’s brief and totally worth it for Cage’s epic hairdo alone. Also, how cool would it be to be able to call George Lucas “uncle George?”
Since his time on Star Wars, Christensen has popped up here and there in movies like Jumper, Vanishing on 7th Street, and Shattered Glass (actually between Episodes II and III), but nothing with quite the profile as his time in that galaxy far, far away. But to be honest, that’s most movies.
He’s been busier of late, and is going to headline the World War II zombie flick Untot for Solaris Entertainment. Untot (German for “undead”) takes place in 1944, towards the end of the war. An elite military unit is dropped behind enemy lines in the middle of a Polish blizzard to take out a secret Nazi weapons facility. But that’s not all they find, as they encounter a cadre of the zombies in the snow. Sounds promising indeed.
