Hayden Christensen Reflects On Shocking Star Wars Scene Where He Kills A Bunch Of Kids
In one of the most memorable scenes of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker murders a bunch of Younglings as he plows down the path toward going fully evil and becoming Darth Vader. Actor Hayden Christensen has reflected on this scene, telling Empire that director George Lucas made a “bold” call to put this into the movie, given the subject matter of killing kids.
Christensen said the scene was “shocking,” and revealed that filming the sequence took time because the child actor in the scene, Ross Beadman, wasn’t initially giving the kind of reaction that Lucas wanted. So Christensen amped things up.
“So I shouted, or growled at him, because we needed a genuine moment of him being startled. It got the response that we needed, and it makes that scene work really well,” he said.