At eight years old, actor Jake Lloyd bagged the role of a lifetime as Anakin Skywalker in George Lucas's much anticipatedStar Warsprequel,Episode I: The Phantom Menace. At this point, it's safe to say,Star Warsfans weren't the only ones who were disappointed by the way things turned ...
Young Anakin Skywalker, Danny Torrance, and Homer Parrish are among the most memorable characters in film history. Yet, the actors who played those parts did not appear in another major movie role. Find out why Jake Lloyd, Danny Lloyd, and Harold Russell never wanted to ...
Best Known For: His role asAnakin Skywalker in the 1999 filmStar Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Actors Who Once Called Colorado Their Home Getty Images John Carroll Lynch From: Boulder, Colorado Best Known For: His roleas Norm Gunderson inFargo. Actors Who Once Called Colorado Their...
Anakin Skywalker star Hayden Christensen didn’t have the best of relationships with writer and directorGeorge Lucas. According to Christensen, he would give very little direction to the actors and not guide them through scenes or talk to them about their characters, leaving them to give out ver...
Given that Anakin Skywalker was, what, in his early 20s when he transformed into Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith, and that there's around 20 years between that film and the original trilogy, then it means Luke's pop is in his mid-40s by the time of Episode VI....
While Hayden Christensen's movie career still took off after his divisive stint as Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels, the actor's only truly outstanding film role is in the film Shattered Glass. The movie tackles the fall of The New Republic associate editor Stephen Glass, who was...
While Leonardo DiCaprio threw himself into the life-changing role of Jack Dawson in James Cameron’sTitanic, that doesn’t mean he was automatically ready to do it again. At the time he was offered the role of Anakin Skywalker in the prequel trilogy, he was still riding the wave ofTitanic...
While Leonardo DiCaprio threw himself into the life-changing role of Jack Dawson in James Cameron’sTitanic, that doesn’t mean he was automatically ready to do it again. At the time he was offered the role of Anakin Skywalker in the prequel trilogy, he was still riding the wave ofTitanic...
“being a jedi”. Some can say he’s cursed by the skywalker legacy. So he gradually gets pissed, driver tells him about being a sith, and he gets seduced by the dark side of the force. And for some reason, at the end he tries to kill ridley, but han solo protects the daughter...
TheFinal Destinationstar revealed in December 2020 that there's one role he didn't claim that still leaves him feeling "heartbroken:" Anakin Skywalker in theStar Warsprequel trilogy. "There were five of us going for it, and then they ended up going with Hayden Christensen from Vancouver...