Hayden Christensen Had To Bulk Up To Play Darth Vader Again On Obi-Wan Kenobi
While opinions on the show might vary, there's no denying that the Disney Plus series Obi-Wan Kenobi has been the talk of the town among Star Wars fans and newcomers pretty much every week since it premiered at the end of May. There are any number of topics that dominate the conversation at any given time, but one of the most prominent ones is easily the return of Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
But Star Wars fans quickly noticed that he looked a bit different even upon his first appearance on the show. While it was only an extreme close-up of a severely scarred suit-less and silent Darth Vader in his bacta tank, it was immediately clear that, if that really was Christensen, then it wasn't the same one who audiences grew attached to inEpisodes II andIII back in the day. The observation isn't meant to body-shame anybody, of course. But it turns out the change was actually intentional.
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In an interview with Fatherly, Christensen spoke about how important it was that he not only appear in the non-helmeted scenes of Darth Vader and Anakin, but also when the character was in his full iconic garb. «I think that process was very important for me,» he said when asked about his conviction to wear the suit. «I needed to become that character again, physically. I just consumed as many calories as possible. I put on 25 or 30 pounds to fill out that [Darth Vader] suit.» Many may have assumed that Christensen only appeared in the flashback and bacta tank scenes, with a body double taking over Vader's regular appearances. But it's nice to hear that he fully committed like this. At least, he committed as long as filming went on.
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