hello I'm Hayden Christensen and this is my wired autocomplete [Music] interview I ever Googled myself n when I was a bit younger but it's been a very long time it was all surprising and shocking and I never did it again all right what do we have here did Hayden Christensen watch the Clone Wars I did I watched the Clone Wars when I was coming back to Star Wars to to get ready for the Obi-Wan Kenobi show I was just sort of reimmerse myself in all things Star Wars and I thought they they did a great job with these characters and and brought in some new characters and really great storytelling how did Hayden Christensen get the role of Anakin Skywalker I auditioned for it like a lot of other people I I went in and I met with the casting director first and then I went to the Skywalker Ranch and I I got to meet with George Lucas which was thrilling and then I I got to go back to the Skywalker Ranch and I auditioned with Natalie Portman maybe a few days later I got one of the best phone calls of my life saying that I got the part just a lot of training to to figure out the lightsaber stuff you know they knew that I had some athletic uh inclinations I played a lot of hockey and Tennis as a kid so they thought maybe I'd be able to to pick up a lightsaber and handle myself but it was a lot of time spent with uh Nick Gillard the the fight choreographer of of the prequels and that was some of my favorite stuff was was you know going to Jedi training camp and learning how to fight with a lightsaber when did Hayden Christensen play Darth Vader I played Darth Vader uh when we did Revenge of the Sith very briefly at the end of that film and then I got to play him again when when we came back to do the Obi-Wan Kenobi show just recently it was a great thrill you know I I uh I'd spent a lot of time uh playing Anakin but to get to sort of spend some time as Darth Vader was was a nice continuation of of my journey with the character Will Hayden Christ son play Anakin again that would be a lot of fun I think that the answer to that question remains to be seen all right does Hayden Christensen go to conventions I have started going to conventions I didn't for a while and then I did and I enjoyed it and I had fun and uh and so now I go every now and then when I can does Hayden Christensen have social media I do not have any social media Never Say Never maybe one day did Hayden Christensen like playing Anakin Skywalker is this yeah Skywalker I did I I loved playing Anakin Skywalker just getting to play a Jedi KN was so much fun putting that costume on every day and and having a lightsaber hang from your belt was was a pretty cool thing and just to play the character that becomes Darth Vader he's got a lot lot of sort of uh you know inner conflict and um lots of emotions he's he's always dealing with you know there's a lot going on underneath the surface probably one of my favorite roles I've ever gotten to play I love the character I love Star Wars so so yeah I definitely did does Hayden Christensen play video games I used to play a lot of video games not So Much Anymore ever since I became a dad I was big into Call of Duty Halo uh and then FIFA FIFA was kind of my go-to Manchester United was the team I usually played with does Hayden Christensen have any tattoos no no I don't have any tattoos too indecisive to to commit to a tattoo all right is Hayden Christensen Mark Hamill's nephew uh no I'm not related to Mark Hamill uh and anyway I've met him a couple times uh great guy but yeah we are we are not related is Hayden Christensen a farmer uh no I'm not I'm not actually a farmer I do have a farm um or it was it was a working farm when I bought it but I stopped farming the land so I'm not not really a farmer um although I do own a track trctor I don't know who really owns a tractor other than a farmer so it's a gray area is Hayden Christensen a footballer no not a footballer I I I played uh when I was a little kid and then I played in a uh a charity match uh called soccer Aid and I think if you go online you can see a video of probably the exact moment when I lost the soccer game for my team it was a close game it was a tied game and then it went to a penalty shootout and when I went up to to do mine it just didn't go very well and the coach actually uh his one bit of advice to me was to keep it on the ground and then I went up to to to strike the ball and I was just like I'm going to give it everything I've got and I nailed the sucker and it just went flying over the net which is probably like a very Anakin thing to do when you think about it is Hayden Christensen CGI in Ahsoka uh no I I was actually there that was me I was digitally deaged little bit but but not a computer generated image is Hayden Christensen in Rise of Skywalker no but my voices very briefly um if you listen closely is Hayden Christensen Danish uh no I'm part Swedish my last name is Danish I don't really know how that happened but no I'm a bit of a part part Swedish part Italian and then part like English Irish Scottish something sort of hard to track that's the end of that one all right what was Hayden Christenson first movie my first movie was a John Carpenter film called in the mouth of Madness I was maybe 12 or 13 at the time and I was in one scene I played a paper boy and I was with Sam Neil and I was I was so excited cuz it was just after Jurassic Park had came out and and so I was really excited to get to be in a movie with him I think I was giving Sam Neil directions both he and and John coor were were very kind people um and I remember John Carpenter gave me a gift basket at at the end of the day and and a very nice hand handwritten card which I think I still have somewhere what is Hayden Christian sins favorite song I don't know that I have a favorite song it's hard to pick just one when I was a kid like if you ask me when I was like 9 or 10 years old I would have said Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis it was one of the first songs I learned to play on the piano and I performed it at a at a at a family member's wedding one time when I was quite young and then I also used to really love Faith by George Michael uh anytime that came on the radio when I was like driving the car with my mom I used to rock out to that song what school did Hayden Christensen go to I went to um Unionville High School in Ontario Canada and it was a a really good school it was a public school but it had an arts program um within the sort of mainstream uh high school and I went to the the theater program there we did like half year studying Shakespeare and I got to play Hamlet I really sort of connected with the role and that was definitely a moment for me where I thought like this this would be something I'd really like to to continue with and and maybe try to make a profession out of for sure there's lot lots of comparisons you can make to Hamlet and Anakin they're both very sort of impulsive characters who tend to sort of act before they think I've certainly been accused of that myself too but yeah there's lots of similarities there maybe that helped me in my my pursuit of playing Anakin what languages does Hayden Christensen speak sadly I really only speak English I wish I was multilingual but I can speak a little bit of French not very well but in Canada it's it's you know part of the sort of mandatory curriculum that you study French up until grade nine and then after grade N I didn't continue with it I'd be able to fake my way through through ordering at at a French restaurant but as soon as I get into a conversation with someone then they pretty quickly realize that it's not not a language I I I should really be communicating in all right next up how oh was Hayden Christensen during Revenge of the Sith I think I was about 22 years old when I did Revenge of the Sith or or when we started the the filming on those would go on for a couple of years so I was probably 22 23 when I did that where is Hayden Christensen from I'm from Canada I was I was born in Vancouver Canada and then my family moved to Toronto when I was when I was like 5 years old and I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto are Hayden Christensen and youan McGregor friends yeah yeah we are friends I love Yan uh he's a great guy uh great actor and it was so nice to get to come back and and do the Obi-Wan show with him and now we we see each other every now and then and it's been really nice uh so yes we are friends can Hayden Christensen play the piano yeah yeah I can play the piano I took a lot of piano lessons when I was a kid and I learned how to play sort of jazz and and blues which was my interest um I can't read any any you know sheet music or anything but I can sit down and have some fun at the piano there a lot of people don't know about me some interesting things to be curious about thank you wired this was fun I hope you learn something till next time [Music]