In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter about the Disney+ miniseries thus far, the actor dives into the Sith Lord's disappointment, makeup and costume changes from 'Revenge of the Sith,' and George Lucas asking him to create an alien language on the spot.
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The Hollywood Reporter: I'm curious if you looked back at the work in the prequels to prepare for Obi-Wan Kenobi, and is there a moment that you are particularly proud of?
Hayden Christensen: I certainly went back and watched all the films again and studied Anakin as much as I could. There is just a lot going on with the character. He's always sort of processing and trying to figure out what's going on around him.
I don't know that I have a scene that I was most proud of, but there's a scene where Anakin goes back to Tatooine in
Episode II [
Attack of the Clones] and speaks to Watto. The script had the dialogue written in English and then, in parentheses, it said: "in Wattanese." It wasn't until the day before we started filming that I went to George, and I was like, "What should Wattanese sound like?" And he was like, "Well, you know, so long as it doesn't sound like English or any other language that might sound familiar. You can just make it up." (
Laughs.) So, I was rushing the night before to try to figure out how to make up Wattanese, and every time I see that scene, I get a bit of a kick out of it.