Hayden Christensen has paid the ultimate respect to Anakin's Clone Wars actor: "Thank you for keeping Star Wars alive"

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka episode 5
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Anakin Skywalker actor🐎 Hayden Christensen ꦐreportedly had some incredible praise for the actor behind his animated Clone Wars counterpart.

According to an excerpt in the upcoming The Dark Side Collection book (via ), when Christens🧸en met The Clone Wars' Anakin actor Matt Lanter for the first time, he told him: "Thanks for keeping Star Wars alive."

Lanter portrayed Anakin Skywalker in 95 episodes of The Clone Wars, which charted Anakin's exploits in the titular conflict between the events of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, as wellꦏ as his growing relationships with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka, AKA 'Snips'.

Christensen, meanwhile, held off on stepping back into the charred boots of the live-action iteration of Anakin Skywalker until 2022's Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney Plus, some 17 years꧒ after last portraying the Jedi prodigy-turned-Darth Vader.

He then returned as the character as part of two of Ahsoka's standout episodes opposite Rosario Dawso♒n. There, the pair reunited in the World Between Worlds, a mysterious realm that exists outside of time and space.

The Anakin actor, though, is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查💙询:certainly open to further opportunities in a galaxy far, far away.

"I would love to get to do more, and I'd love to get to continue with Star Wars and we'll see," Christensen told a year ago. "I don't know what the future holds, and if such an opportunity presents its🐈elf, I'll be there with a big smile on my face. And if it doesn't, I feel really grateful for getting to come back and getting to do the work that I did in both Obi-Wan and Ahsoka."

For more, check out our guides to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Star Wars movies and how to watch 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Clone Wars in order.

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