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Interview by: Alysa Salzberg
Hayden Christensen is best known for playing the role of Anakin Skywalker (the future Lord Darth Vader) in the recent Star Wars trilogy. However, there is much more to this actor then just being the leading male role in several of the big budget blockbuster films we all flock to the movies to see. Perhaps what is so admirable about Christensen is his thoughtful intelligence, interest in the quality of a story, and the importance he places on the artistic expression of acting. Christensen doesn’t seem to recognize the appeal of being an actor as having extensive amounts of fame or money. He’s more interested in making films that mean something. In other words, his interests lie within films that have relevance and strike him on a personal level. We spoke with the ever so charming Hayden about his most recent film, Shattered Glass . What makes this film even more personal to Hayden is that he co-produced it with his brother, Tove. Shattered Glass is based on a true story about Stephen Glass, a former reporter for the New Republic Magazine. Glass embellished or fabricated almost all his stories. This film is the story of the rise and downfall of Glass. After playing such the career changing role of Anakin Skywalker, many would wonder why Christensen would choose to do a much smaller movie with an appeal to only certain audiences. Hayden saw it no other way: “There was no reasoning in wanting to do it, it was the only movie we could make and the story we wanted to tell.” There was an obvious pull for Hayden to really want to do this story and co-produce it with his brother. When asked of his specific interest and draw to the character of Stephen Glass, Christensen had several answers for us: “I guess I just have an intrinsic interest in what y’all do (journalism)….there are obvious similarities between acting and your line of work…and the Vanity Fair article really got me. This whole domino effect of lie telling and being found out and the audacity of it all. I thought I could have a lot of fun with the character.” Stephen Glass is a complex character psychologically. While watching the film you become fascinated with him…is he an insecure boy who desperately wants to fit in and be liked? Or is Glass just a conniving manipulator? As Christensen says, “There has to be something sort of pathological about it in order to tell as many lies as he did, to the extent that he did and as colorful as they were. I never made him out to be a malicious person who was out to get people. He was, for me, someone who was so enamored with the spotlight and wanting a level of success that he maybe didn’t ... |
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