Anakin Skywalker actor, Hayden Christensen, reacts to the ‘I don’t like sand’ Star Wars meme that has become viral online.

Hayden Christensen was recently asked about the ‘I don’t like sand’ meme while on the press tour for the upcoming Disney Plus series Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Hayden appeared to find humour in the meme, as he gave a chuckle while looking as if he was thinking back on old memories. He began to talk about how he understands Anakin’s perspective but went on to state that his opinion is different when it comes to the topic of sand.

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Hayden Christensen has been talking Star Wars a lot recently. In an interview with Starwars.com, Hayden sat down to talk for ‘Clones at 20,’ a celebration of 20 years since Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker, talked about when he got the part and what his reaction was. He was so excited when he got the role, that his friend/roommate turned on the Episode 1 soundtrack(presumably Duel of the Fates) and the two jumped around their apartment while pretending to have a lightsaber fight.

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“I remember when I got the phone call saying that I got the part,” Hayden Christensen says. “I was still in bed, actually, in my apartment in Vancouver at the time. I recall walking out after I got off the phone, just sort of stunned and in disbelief by the news, walking into the living room where my roommate was. He was aware that I was waiting for this call, and he saw my smile and immediately understood that there was good news. My response was, I lit up an imaginary lightsaber. He was a big Star Wars fan too, and he had the soundtrack to Episode I. He put the Star Wars soundtrack on, and we had this whole imaginary lightsaber duel around our apartment, jumping on all the furniture and just screaming like giddy little children.”

Christensen also went on to talk about where he drew inspiration from and how his interpretation fits into the actor’s portrayals that came before and after him.

“For me, trying to develop the character of Anakin, there was a lot that I could draw from. There was a lot of source material. I was playing a part that was already played before me, as well as after me. This was a character that had a family, children that had grown up. You had all of these elements, and where he was in his life and what that life was, and how all that would have affected him. There were a lot of elements that needed to cohere,” he says. “And for me, one of the aspects of Star Wars that I found really compelling was the generational aspect of it. I really wanted that to feel authentic and have as much continuity as possible. I was very cognizant of the performance that Jake Lloyd gave [in Episode I], and wanting it to feel like it really was just an older version of that kid, to some of the nuances and mannerisms of Darth Vader, wanting that transition to have some context as well, and to his children, Luke and Leia, and for that lineage to feel convincing. So I had a lot that I was drawing from, and then of course, everything he’s going through in the story.”

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