Hayden Christensen’s career could fall apart by 2004, andouble-take when you watched 19-year-old star Hayden Christensen play Scott Barringer on the Fox Family Channel’s now-defunct Higher Ground. But it was Christensen’s acting skills that caught the eye of George Lucas. Once he found Christensen, the director called off his search for just the right person to play Anakin Skywalker in the upcoming Star Wars movies Episode II and Episode III. Seventeen caught up with the Canadian cutie on his return from Sydney, Australia — where he’d just finished filming the fifth installment of the sci-fi adventure — to find out if the force was still with him. You be the judge.
Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia. When he’s on location, Christensen, who grew up in Toronto, misses Canada’s diversity. “There is such a beautiful contrast in everything from its geography and seasons to its culture and communities,” he says. “And the mountains are great for snowboarding, which I love to do. I try to spend as much time there as possible.”
Current reading material: The novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. “It makes you believe the joy is in the journey and [encourages you] to trust the spiritual process a little more.”
Favorite dish: “The bow-tie pasta with shrimp and broccoli that my mom makes.”
Musical taste: Radiohead and Outkast.
Preferred pet: “I have a lot of pets at my home in Toronto,” he says. “It sometimes resembles a zoo. There’s a new animal every time I go back.”
Three items he took to the Star Wars set: His pillow, a rock and a silver angel statuette that his mother gave him. “It stands on my bedside table watching over me wherever I go,” he explains.
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