Diego Luna and Hayden Christensen Fan Out: ‘Star Wars’ Secrets, Lightsaber Bruises and the Franchise Bringing ‘Freedom’ and ‘Financial Stability’
variety.comHayden Christensen and Diego Luna have never met, but as Christensen puts it, they’ve occupied the “same galaxy” for years.
Christensen rocketed from teenage obscurity in Canada when George Lucas cast him as Anakin Skywalker for 2002’s “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones” and 2005’s “Revenge of the Sith,” which chronicled the young Jedi’s transformation into the iconic villain Darth Vader.
The Mexican-born Luna — who rose to prominence in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 coming-of-age masterpiece “Y tu mamá también” — joined “Star Wars” for 2016’s “Rogue One,” a prequel about the band of rebel spies, led by Luna’s Cassian Andor, that steal the plans for the Death Star. Both men thought their “Star Wars” journeys ended with those films — in Luna’s case, because his character dies — but it turns out they were merely frozen in carbonite.
Christensen, 42, returned last year as both Anakin and Vader in the Disney+ limited series “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” with his former co-star Ewan McGregor as the titular Jedi master 10 years after the events of “Revenge of the Sith.” Luna, 43, headlines Disney+’s “Andor,” a “Rogue One” prequel series from executive producer Tony Gilroy that radically reframes “Star Wars” storytelling from the perspective of everyday people struggling under the yoke of the Empire.
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