Hayden Christensen’s favorite part of making Star Wars was obviously the big lightsaber battle
Playing with lightsabers is fun, even when defending your new Empire
A lot of Star Wars opinions seem straightforward—the originals are “good,” the prequels are “bad,” the sequels are “disastrous, except for The Last Jedi which is perfect in every way”—but there’s actually more nuance in there than the average person might expect. Some people, for example, actually prefer the unfettered George Lucas-ness of The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones to the melodrama and huge narrative leaps of Revenge Of The Sith.
One thing we can all probably agree on, though, is that the final lightsaber battle in Revenge Of The Sith—which, in our minds, takes up about a third of its runtime—is very cool and exciting. Regardless of whether you want to tear down the entire premise of this news story by disagreeing, we do at least know that Hayden Christensen himself agrees with us on this. In a “Memory Lane” video posted on the Twitter account for Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series (which reunites with Christensen with Ewan McGregor), Christensen says that the “most fun” part of working on Star Wars was his lightsaber duel with Obi-Wan.