Interesting...
May. 23rd, 2002 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriNot really a Star Wars fan, but I did find this bit from this week's Sci Fi Weekly Interview interesting:
A lot of people gave thumbs down to Lloyd's performance in The Phantom Menace. How did you go about picking up the better aspects to incorporate into your performance?
Hayden Christensen: I thought that elements of Jake's performance were very key to what Anakin's descent was going to entail. That immaturity was hopefully a part of my performance, in terms of how he reacts to certain stimuli in the film and his mindset of feeling that guidance isn't so much necessary at this point in his life. Jake is a kid. He was eight years old at the time. To actually critique his performance is cruel. You wouldn't do it if he were performing in a school play. Just because he's doing it on a different platform, I think it's kind of wrong [to criticize him]. But what are you going to do?
Basically, the kid was young, so maybe his performance sucked; give him a break. That's.. kinda cool of him to say.
A lot of people gave thumbs down to Lloyd's performance in The Phantom Menace. How did you go about picking up the better aspects to incorporate into your performance?
Hayden Christensen: I thought that elements of Jake's performance were very key to what Anakin's descent was going to entail. That immaturity was hopefully a part of my performance, in terms of how he reacts to certain stimuli in the film and his mindset of feeling that guidance isn't so much necessary at this point in his life. Jake is a kid. He was eight years old at the time. To actually critique his performance is cruel. You wouldn't do it if he were performing in a school play. Just because he's doing it on a different platform, I think it's kind of wrong [to criticize him]. But what are you going to do?
Basically, the kid was young, so maybe his performance sucked; give him a break. That's.. kinda cool of him to say.
