WHEN Hayden Christensen auditioned for the role of the young Darth Vader in 2000 he was content to have nabbed a couple of souvenir hats from his visit to George Lucas’s secretive Skywalker Ranch.
Little did he expect, as a then 19-year-old unknown, to land the part of cinema’s most revered baddie. But after his two resulting Star Wars movies had hit cinema screens, the Canadian actor must have wished he had borrowed a stormtrooper’s Kevlar helmet.
For Hayden’s performance as Anakin Skywalker in the smash-hit sci-fi series came in for a barrage of criticism. The Razzies, or Golden Raspberry Awards, are given for Hollywood’s worst performances, and he was given two Razzie Worst Supporting Actor gongs.
One critic called him “an ’N Sync kid who doesn’t have as much talent”, and it was said that his romantic moments with Natalie Portman’s Senator Amidala “couldn’t be Amiduller”.
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