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After debuting as Anakin Skywalker inStar Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones(2002) Hayden Christensen reprised his Star Wars role in multiple projects includingStar Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. However, his recent appearance in the live-action showStar Wars: Ahsoka, alongside Rosario Dawson, is what surprised and thrilled fans the most.
Hayden Christensen appeared on the fifth episode of Disney’sAhsokaSeason 1 to share the screen with Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano. Following their highly anticipated live-action reunion, fans began wondering if Anakin Skywalker would return in the second season of the show since the series is officially under development for its next installment. Dawson and Christensen both responded to fans’ curiosity.
Rosario Dawson Shares Her Experience Working with Hayden Christensen
Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano’s relationship goes a long way throughStar Warshistory. Initially appearing together during the Battle of Christophsis, in the 2008 animated movieStar Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano had the perfect traits to be the Padawan for Anakin Skywalker. Thereafter, Anakin’s relationship with Ashoka became a vital part of his existence.
Star Wars: Ashley Eckstein Reflects On Ahsoka Tano’s Legacy
Following this very storyline, the two characters were later brought in a live-action adaptation of Disney’sStar Wars: Ahsoka.Rosario Dawsonappeared as Ahsoka Tano in the live-action show, after her initial appearance inThe Mandalorianand Hayden Christensen reprised his character Anakin Skywalkersince his 2002Star Warsdebut. The duo stunned fans with their highly anticipated character reunion as they crossed lightsabers on the fifth episode ofAhsoka.
Thereafter, speaking withEW, Rosario Dawson opened up about her work experience with Hayden Christensen. WithStar Wars: Ahsokaseason 2 being in development, as fans wonder if Anakin Skywalker will return once again to the show to continue his story with Ahsoka Tano, Dawson speaks about the onscreen and offscreen chemistry with Christensen.
We never could have imagined we’d be here doing this together. It is a pretty cool thing to know that we have a history that we were able to play with and actually engage with and that there is a history there that didn’t have to get made up.
Recalling her first meeting with Hayden Christensen as batchmates at New York City’s Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in the summer of 1995, Rosario Dawson expressed her excitement upon getting to share the screen with her long-time buddy inStar Wars: Ahsoka. Therefore, considering their Star Wars characters’ history and their offscreen friendship, Dawson and Christensen had a great time on set.
Will Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker Return inStar Wars: Ahsoka?
Now, withStar Wars: AhsokaS2 officially in the works, audiences are wondering if we’ll get to see more of Anakin. Therefore, addressing fans’ curiosity, Rosario Dawson and Hayden Christensen shared potential updates about their appearance in season 2. Speaking withEW, as the interviewer asked aboutAnakin’s potential role in Ahsoka’s story, as we head into season 2, the duo teased positive updates. Interviewer asked,
What can you say in terms of the relationship between those two characters now as we head into season 2?
Christensen responded,
Look, as to whether or not we see Anakin again, I don’t know. But as evidenced by that last shot of the series, he’s with her in spirit, and they continue to have this connection.
Hayden Christensensimply took the ambiguous route and merely noted that his character would be with Ahsoka in spirit. Thus sparking speculation with his response about whether he’ll make any on-screen appearances, Christensen left us to wonder ifAhsokaor another project willfeature Anakin’s next appearance. However, as for Rosario Dawson, she had a bit more of a promising tease of Anakin’s return.
I will just say that as she puts on that hologram of him, you see that there’s several of them. So I think there’s that potential. But I love, also, not just being relegated to those messages and things that we might be able to see more of in the future. We’ve gotten to see from the films now into the show that he’s been able to become this force ghost that brings him back to Anakin, who at the end of the day when he went and ascended to that space, that’s what he became.
The Disney+ series centers around Rosario Dawson’s character, whose origin surrounds a master-apprentice relationship with Anakin Skywalker, previously depicted in the 2008 animated series and movieStar Wars: The Clone Wars. Star Wars: Ahsokatakes place five years after the events ofStar Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi(1983), in which Anakin dies and becomes a Force ghost.
Star Wars: Ahsokais available on Disney+.
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