On this episode of Actually Me, Hayden Christensen goes undercover online and replies to real comments from fans on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok and more. What are his current hobbies? What's his favorite Star Wars movie? Does he have a hierarchal order of watching all of the Star Wars movies?AHSOKA is now streaming on Disney+Director: Kristen DeVoreDirector of Photography: AJ YoungEditor: Robby MasseyGuest: Hayden ChristensenProducer: Sam DennisLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Jenna CaldwellCamera Operator: Josh AndersenSound Mixer: Kari BarberProduction Assistant: Liza Antonova; Brock SpitaelsPost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAdditional Editor: Gerard ZarraAssistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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00:00What's up, GQ? I'm Hayden Christensen, and today I'm going undercover on the internet.
00:09It's actually me.
00:11It's cool, right? Using the force.
00:16Let's check Twitter. Slash X.
00:19Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor on the set of Obi-Wan Kenobi?
00:23What did naughty Ewan tell Hayden after that scene?
00:27Hayden couldn't hold in a laugh.
00:29And then it says, Hayden is that guy in your class you make laugh to get him in trouble with the teacher.
00:34First off, the images on the left are from the Obi-Wan Kenobi show.
00:38The one on the right, though, I think that's from the prequels because everything's covered in blue.
00:44So that's how I can tell the difference.
00:46But we were laughing a lot that day.
00:48They would paint these dots on our face so that they could try to de-age us a little bit.
00:53So we were making fun of the way we looked. It was a little silly.
00:56But I don't recall exactly what we were laughing about in that moment.
01:09This is true. That was us. There were no stunt doubles, and they didn't speed it up at all.
01:15We were just that good.
01:17You know, being on a Star Wars set and swinging a lightsaber,
01:20I used to struggle a lot with not making the sound effects.
01:23Because as a kid, you're just sort of conditioned to do that yourself.
01:27And I remember George Lucas, on a couple of occasions, would have to come over to me and say,
01:31Hayden, I can see your mouth moving, and you don't need to make the sound effects.
01:35We do that in post.
01:41I don't know. There's too many good ones to choose from.
01:44But I don't think it's this one.
01:46Anakin Skywalker Force Ghost.
01:48Why is his Force Ghost so young?
01:51Dude died on fire as an old man.
01:54Yeah, you know, dark side powers. That's what that's about.
01:59Posted.
02:00Quorra.
02:02What is Quorra?
02:08Well, I don't really know what you do or don't know about me, but I like to build pawns.
02:13It's become a bit of a hobby for me.
02:15I have a lot of sort of big construction equipment at my farm in Canada.
02:20And it's just sort of like the most obvious thing to do with a big excavator is dig a big hole.
02:25And then what do you do with a big hole? You fill it with water.
02:27And there's something nice about just sort of trying to create a nice water environment.
02:31It attracts life and birds and animals.
02:34And when you get it just right, it's very satisfying.
02:37Are they making a Jumper sequel with Hayden Christensen?
02:41Well, I really liked making Jumper.
02:44It was a really fun movie to do.
02:45We traveled all over the world to these amazing locations.
02:49But since that film was made over 15 years ago now, I would say don't hold your breath.
03:00I don't know that I'm really the one to answer that.
03:03You know, I kind of think that film is a very personal thing.
03:06For myself, Star Wars Revenge of the Sith is probably one of the better ones.
03:10Who is more handsome, Hayden Christensen or Tom Cruise?
03:15We'll go Tom Cruise for the win.
03:18What if Hayden Christensen was cast as Batman and Bruce Wayne in The Batman?
03:24Batman is a great character, but I think that Robert Pattinson did a really great job.
03:29If you had to play that, do you think you could play Bruce Wayne or Batman better?
03:34It's the dichotomy of the character.
03:36I don't know. You got to have one and the other.
03:39Probably more Bruce Wayne would be the easier character for me to access personally.
03:44All right, let's go on to YouTube.
03:46Learning that Natalie once had Hayden's Padawan braid.
03:50Then I lost it, you know.
03:51Eventually lost it. Blows my mind.
03:54Like Padme actually had Anakin's Padawan braid.
03:57Yeah, I do kind of remember that she kept one of those.
04:00It was very sweet.
04:01Although I think the real question is, whose hair did she actually have?
04:05Because it wasn't mine.
04:06I used to think that, because they would glue this hair extension behind my ear every day.
04:12I always used to wonder, whose hair am I wearing today?
04:16I forgive you, Natalie.
04:18Should we move on to Reddit?
04:20Is it better to watch Star Wars in chronological order or the way it released?
04:27My first time watching.
04:28I don't know that there is a right or a wrong way to do it.
04:31Certainly starting with Episode I and just enjoying the story in a linear, chronological way makes perfect sense.
04:38But I think there is also something to maybe starting with Episode IV, doing the original trilogy,
04:43and then going back and doing the prequels,
04:45because there's a great reveal in the original trilogy that you kind of miss out on if you start with Episode I.
04:51But teach the realm.
04:55Who would win MCU, Thanos, or Darth Vader?
04:58No extra round, BS.
05:00Thanos with his glove and stones versus Vader and his lightsaber.
05:05Obviously Vader, right?
05:07Definitely Vader.
05:08Vader beats everybody.
05:10Always.
05:11Is Hayden Christensen going to come back for Sokka Season 2?
05:15I think that would be a lot of fun.
05:17I think the answer to that question will remain to be seen.
05:22Now let's move on to IMDb.
05:24He fractured his hand during the filming of a rather violent scene in Life is a House,
05:30in which his character hits a wall.
05:32This is true.
05:33It wasn't intended to be a rather violent scene.
05:35It was just something that I did in one take.
05:38I actually think it was a wooden post that I punched,
05:41which makes it even kind of more stupid because I wasn't really expecting my hand to go through some drywall.
05:46It was a movie I did with Kevin Kline, where I play his son.
05:49And Kevin came up to me afterwards and he said,
05:52Hayden, that was really great, but I think you're going to make a lot of movies in your lifetime,
05:56and you only get one body, so take care of it.
05:59Which I think is sage advice.
06:02He, his brother, and their friends kidnap one another on each of their birthdays,
06:09drive to a location unknown to the birthday boy, and then spend the day riding dirt bikes.
06:14This is true.
06:15We did this for a few years.
06:17One morning on my birthday, my brother woke me up really early, like before the sun was even up.
06:22That's kind of why it felt like I was being kidnapped.
06:24And told me to get in the car, and they drove me somewhere far away,
06:27and there were dirt bikes, and we went on this great trip together,
06:31and then we had a lot of fun, so we kept it going for a few years.
06:34And that sort of started my love of riding dirt bikes, which I still do on my farm.
06:38On to TikTok.
06:40TikTok, TikTok.
06:42If we're to have an Anakin show, it can only be his transition into Vader from Order 66
06:49up until Obi-Wan Rebels time.
06:52That'd be it.
06:53I like your timeline. It's a good timeline. There's good stuff there.
06:57Although I think technically that would be a Vader show, not an Anakin show.
07:02Why hasn't he aged? Still so handsome. Swoon.
07:06Well, Juju, that's very sweet.
07:09I don't think it's true, but very nice of you to say.
07:13Okay, on to Wikipedia.
07:25This is true. I did a clothing line.
07:27It was sort of inspired by my farm.
07:29Mostly I just designed clothes that I wanted to wear and keep in my closet.
07:33I have a tendency to sort of take nice clothes and then bring them back to my farm
07:37and then make a mess of them and I ruin my clothes really fast.
07:40So I just wanted to make clothes that would kind of wear well and hold up well with a little bit of abuse.
07:45The process of designing a clothing line was enjoyable because it's all about details
07:50and I can sort of let my OCD kind of run rampant.
08:08This is also true.
08:10When we were doing Revenge of the Sith,
08:12I found out that they were not planning on having me be in the Darth Vader suit.
08:16I was a little bummed about that, so I spoke to George Lucas and I asked him
08:20and he was kind enough to oblige.
08:22I think there's something nice about knowing that it's the actor in the costume as well,
08:26but it was really just for my benefit.
08:28It was a challenging suit to move around and I told George,
08:31I was like, look, I don't know that I can move as well as I thought I would be able to.
08:35He was like, it's okay, it's supposed to be your first time in the suit,
08:38so if it's a little rigid and awkward, he was like, that's a good thing actually.
08:42When the helmet goes on and you're just totally enclosed in this costume,
08:47it was a remarkable experience just because you could see people's reaction
08:52to seeing Vader for the first time.
08:54People who were sort of usually very assertive became a little more timid
08:59and they'd kind of not want to make eye contact with you.
09:02I had good fun with that.
09:03All right, that's it. We're signing off of the internet.