Hayden Christensen's Acting

What do you think of the infamous Hayden Christensen's acting ability in the prequels? Voice your opinions below!

I think he's actually pretty good. I doubt anyone else could have done much better, especially with that script. Ugh.

Yeah I agree. Most people didn't have stellar performances despite being strong actors in the PT, though honestly I've thought that of Star Wars overall.

Watch Shattered Glass. He's pretty good in that.

Ep 3 acting was better. However he have some bad acting scenes in ep 2. Overall mediocre but he did play an important part...

The Hayden hatin' has to stop.

(See what I did there?) I'm a ****ing genius.

Hating? I though we were reviewing?

Hayden had lousy material to work with and not enough leverage to make his own Anakin, just the one Lucas wanted him to play. He's okay. Shattered Glass was pretty good, Jumper... nah... soso...

A lot of people are just assholes, they really need to cut him some slack.

But, yeah, I agree.

But hey, Mark Hamill didn't become a great star either. So I hope Hayden gets to do something that suits him and where he is able to show what he can do. I don't think SW gave him much room.

Agreed.

I thought he was bad. I'm sure Lucas is to blame as well but he's the reason I lost respect for Vader the villain. Sometimes well most times mystery is better.

I actually enjoyed his ROTS performance, though I'm probably the minority on that...

Not gonna bother defending his AOTC performance though.

Originally posted by Emperordmb
I actually enjoyed his ROTS performance, though I'm probably the minority on that...

Not gonna bother defending his AOTC performance though.

Don't blame you....

Hehehe... but even in ROTS his material was limited. I wonder was his instruction was: be angry, very angry, all the time... even when people make a joke, you're angry.... ("But why??? Why am I angry???" - "Just do as I say! But more intense."😉

It had its high points and low points. I thought it was as good as it could possibly be in RoTS. Despite the flaws in AoTC, it was no worse than Mark Hamill's acting in ANH.

Faster and more intense!

in hayden's defense:

“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.”

how could anyone read that crap out loud and make it not suck?

Originally posted by focus4chumps
in hayden's defense:

“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.”

how could anyone read that crap out loud and make it not suck?

Most men were not very eloquent when they were 17-19.

He was like 21. And don't knock that line. That bit of dialogue is one of the funniest things in the PT.